Vernon Dobson, civil rights leader - baltimoresun.com: The Rev. Vernon Dobson, a Baptist minister and civil rights leader died Saturday of complications of a stroke. He was 89.
As a leading figure in Baltimore's civil rights movement, Mr. Dobson lived a life molded by the struggle for equality — a struggle he continued into his last years — and as a pastor who believed that the church should play an important part in the fight.
Campaigning took a hold on Mr. Dobson's life early on. Talking to The Baltimore Sun in 1998, he described demonstrating against segregation as a young child with his mother in the 1930s.
"My mother fired the fuel of dissent in me," he said. "Every Saturday morning, a group of women would go to Pennsylvania Avenue to protest. And sometimes they would take us with them."
