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HOLMES, Zan W. (b. 1935)

Oral Histories

OH 0921

Clergyman, 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.
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