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Growing up in "black world"

Growing up in "black world"
Van Gilmer

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Van Gilmer

Van Gilmer grew up in Greensboro, NC, at the height of Segregation. He was a musician, architectural engineer and active in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, when he became a Baha&
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The Black Church: a spiritual and musical legacy
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The Black Church: a spiritual and musical legacy

Van Gilmer: The minister talked about us being one family, and about loving one another. And that stayed with me.
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