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The Black Mystery Series
By Vincent L. Hall
I keep a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. My job is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted!
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– Zan Holmes
Black Dallas History!
Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. arrived in Dallas in 1956, fresh from his undergraduate work at Huston-Tillotson College, a historically Black college near Austin, Texas. The school was formed by merging two schools; Samuel Huston College and Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute.
Huston-Tillotson, the amalgam produced by the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church in 1952, was virtually new in its nomenclature when Holmes graduated. The association with the United Methodist Church also helped lead him to Dallas and the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
Zan Holmes was a household name in the contingent areas from Waco to Austin. Holmes was
