Wilma Dobie papers, photographs, and audio recordings

Wilma Dobie was a journalist and lifelong jazz enthusiast, advocate and promoter. At 12 years old she heard Fate Marable perform on the Riverboat St. Paul and she "knew instantly this was the most exhilarating music [she'd] ever heard in [her] life." Coinciding with her journalism career she organized groups of people to work collectively to make jazz flourish as either as a producer, director, chairman or board member of organizations such as the American Federation of Jazz Societies (AFJS), the Overseas Press Club (OPC), and the House That Jazz Built. She managed public relations for the Statesmen of Jazz and was a correspondent and contributing writer for The Universal Jazz Coalition (UJC) and various publications, among them Jazz Forum, Off-Beat Jazz, Jersey Jazz, The American Rag, The Mississippi Rag, Jazz Ambassador Magazine, Planet Jazz, Jazz Notes, and The New York Times.