Black is Beautiful

ID: 2605 ~ Source: Griffin, Marvin C. Interviewed by Daniel B. McGee on 19 August 1981 in Waco, Texas, Baylor University Institute for Oral History. Access full interview here.
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Griffin discusses changing conceptions of blackness and black pride over the course of his lifetime.

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By Skylar Ray
During the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. Marvin C. Griffin strove to bring the Christian gospel to bear upon the civil rights struggle in Waco. As minister of New Hope Baptist Church from 1951 to 1969, Reverend Griffin preached a message of spiritual…