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A bust of John Wesley Dobbs, a prominent civic leader who helped organize black voting power in Atlanta, looks out over the highway that was built through the business district he had dubbed “Sweet Auburn” in the Old Fourth Ward. Dobbs died in 1961 on the same day that Atlanta’s schools were desegregated and the same year this highway was built. Image by Evey Wilson