Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Reverend B. Herbert Martin, Sr. Reverend B. Herbert Martin, Sr.
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Other authors / contributors: | Martin, B. Herbert, 1942- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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Sound characteristics: | digital
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 December 11. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Civil rights activist and pastor B. Herbert Martin was born on December 28, 1942 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Martin graduated from Mound Bayou High School in 1963, earned his B.A. degree from Philander Smith College in 1967, and a M.Div. degree from Garrett Theological Seminary in 1970. Martin pastured Sherman, Clair Christian, Gresham, and St. Mark United Methodist churches from 1968 to 1979. He was pastor of The Progressive People's Community Center-The People's Church. He was president and executive director of the Chicago South Side NAACP, chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, and executive director of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations. Martin was active in many religious and civic activities such as the boards of Christian Laity of Chicago, One Church One Child, the Million Man March-Chicago Organizing Committee, and Operation PUSH. He was probably best known as the pastor of late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington.
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