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OH 0921

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeHOLMES, Zan W. (b. 1935)
ProfessionsClergyman, Community leader

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 0921
Date(s) of interview -
DescriptionClergyman, community leader. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, during the 1950s and 1960s. Youth and adolescent years in Waco; segregated education; college at Huston-Tillotson, 1952-56; entry to Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, 1956; organizing the Hamilton Park Methodist Church and his pastorship there; his home in Hamilton Park; his political activities; church youth programs; zoning problems; Hamilton Park School and desegregation.
Interviewer(s)William Wilson
Physical Description54 pp.
Terms of UseOpen