Parental Support

ID: 2616 ~ Source: Griffin, Marvin C., interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton on 23 June 1972 in Austin, Texas, Baylor University Institute for Oral History. Access full interview here.
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Griffin remembers his mother encouraging him to attend college after his high school graduation despite his family’s precarious financial situation.

This file appears in: Marvin C. Griffin

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…