“No work in Atlanta has taught me more about my home than this one, an oversized “portrait mask” depicting the Civil Rights leader John Wesley Dobbs. Sitting in a plaza at the corner of Fort St. & Auburn Ave. SE, in the deep shadows of I-75/85, Dobbs stares out at Sweet Auburn, historically the main cultural and retail street of Atlanta’s African American community. Despite all of the giants of American history living and working in the neighborhood, this was Dobbs’s domain. He was long known as the unofficial “mayor” of the street.”

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