Friday, January 20, 2012
Rev. Dwight Graves, chairman of the Cobb SCLC, will be laid to rest today.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Cobb County lost civil rights and spiritual leader Rev. Dwight Graves on Jan. 10. Graves was chairman of the Cobb Southern Christian Leadership Conference and pastor of Emmanuel Tabernacle Christian Church in Marietta. According to the SCLC Facebook page, the following are the funeral arrangements for Graves: Funeral: Friday, Jan. 20 at 11 a.m. Zion Baptist Church 165 Lemon St. Marietta, 30060 Wake: Thursday, Jan. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. Zion Baptist Church Chapel 165 Lemon St. Marietta, 30060 Rev. Graves was also a member of Prince Hall Masons, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, CASA Board, Kellogg Board (Kennesaw Village), Cobb County Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, Cobb County Coalition for Social Change and Interdenominational …
Thursday, January 12, 2012
One man remembers a local leader and friend, Rev. Dwight Graves.
We give thanks for Reverend Dwight Graves, our Civil Rights leader. In this season, we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We also reflect on the history of the Civil Rights Movement in America. There were many great leaders from all walks of life. We take this time to reflect on our own leader in Cobb County SCLC, Rev Dwight Graves. Through him we shared the dream and in us “The Dream Lives On,” which is the theme of this year's Cobb SCLC King celebration events. We thank God for sending us a leader like Rev. Graves. He possessed family values, was a good husband and father, had a good work history from the military and U.S. Postal Service; he was a Civil Rights leader on many levels. He led us in the cases which …
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Rev. Dwight Graves, president of the Cobb Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died this morning.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Kiri Walton
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Cobb County lost a civil rights and spiritual leader this morning. Rev. Dwight Graves, chairman of the Cobb Southern Christian Leadership Conference and pastor of Emmanuel Tabernacle Christian Church in Marietta, died at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital. SCLC members put his time of death at approximately 7 a.m. None of the members who spoke to South Cobb Patch were aware of the cause of Graves' death. According to his biography on the website of Emmanuel Tabernacle Christian Church, Graves, who turned 64 on Dec. 14, was born in Freeman, WV. He was the third child of Sherman and Estella Graves. Growing up, he was active in his local church, Bluestone Baptist Church and assisted his father with various community, political and civil rights …
Monday, October 3, 2011
Rev. Lionel Gantt wrote this letter to the editor expressing his views and an urgency to help stop the violence in South Cobb.
Accountability is our first and far most concern in our fight to stop the violence, and we have taken great steps in counter-acting this effect. On Aug. 13, at the same time we were hosting a Stop the Violence Press Conference at Trinity Church, other community organizers were hosting an event at Marietta Housing Authority Housing Projects, in which over 500 people gathered in a fun-filled event, with no police actions, outbreaks of crimes or violent acting out of any kind. The organizers of this event did an outstanding job. I was there at this event, and I was the organizer of the press conference to Stop the Violence. These positive actions do not get big press, but every time a black youth, operating on his own, not representing the …
Friday, August 12, 2011
The civil rights organization invites community members to participate in its "Stop the Violence" campaign.
The Cobb County Southern Christian Leadership Conference will host its first in a series of “Stop the Violence” conferences on Saturday. The event will take place at Trinity Tabernacle Baptist Church at 592 Veterans Memorial Highway S.E. in Mableton from 2-3 p.m. The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for community leaders and members to connect and learn about resources in the Mableton community to help make the area safer. Rev. Lionel Gantt, who organized the event, wrote in a recent email that Mableton is making headlines for robberies and violent crimes. “So it is here in Mableton, that we wish to start our Stop the Violence and Incarceration Press Conference asking our citizens to come together as a community of people again…
Rich "The Equalizer" Pellegrino
1:06 am on Saturday, January 21, 2012
Dittos to what Rev Gantt said...it was truly an inspiring and moving homegoing ceremony for Rev Graves and a fitting call to action for all of us to follow in his footsteps and those of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (whose nephew, Mr. Farris, the new President of the SCLC, eloquently recounted the words of his uncle at the funeral service today). more ›