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 …
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 ›