Lifelong Service

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Lifelong Service
Photo of Griffin Preaching, Marvin C. Griffin Papers, #3837, Box 74, Folder 1. The Texas Collection, Baylor University.

While pastoring in Austin, Griffin served as the first African American president of the Austin Independent School District and worked to help the city transition to an integrated public-school system.

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…