- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 20 min., 47 sec.)) : sound, color.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Reverend B. Herbert Martin, Sr.
- Reverend B. Herbert Martin, Sr.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000518661
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend B. Herbert Martin, Sr.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
042047
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 December 11.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civil Rights Activist Pastor.
- Added Author
Martin, B. Herbert, 1942- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.