The Atlanta Negro Voters League (ANVL) was an American bipartisan governmental organization.
The organization was formed in 1949 by Republican A. T. Walden, and Democrat John Wesley Dobbs.
The organization was formed on July 7, 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia by Democratic lawyer and leader of the NAACP's Atlanta branch, A. T. Walden, and Republican leader of the Prince Hall Masons of Georgia and the Fulton County Republican Club John Wesley Dobbs.
[9] They were also responsible for multiple Atlanta sit-ins, mainly ones in historically Black colleges and universities.
[10] The group was often criticized for catering to wealthier Black people who lived in Sweet Auburn.