Thomas A. Dorsey
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Thomas Andrew Dorsey was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them go
Thomas Dorsey during his "Georgia Tom" blues period, late 1920s
Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, 1964, where Dorsey was music director for 50 years
Villa Rica, Georgia
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Villa Rica is a city in Carroll and Douglas counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. Villa Rica is placed in the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, Villa Rica had a population of 16,970.
Thomas A. Dorsey
…throughout black churches in the United States, which in turn influenced American music and parts of society at large. Thomas A. Dorsey was born in Villa Rica, Georgia, the first of three children to Thomas Madison Dorsey, a minister and farmer, and Etta Plant Spencer. The Dorseys sharecropped on a small farm, while…
City Hall on Bankhead Highway
Still standing, Wicks Tavern was built in 1830 and was major competition for Hix Tavern.
Handbill originally distributed to announce a land sale in Villa Rica, Georgia, c. 1882.
Villa Rica First Presbyterian Church