H. H. Coleman
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|birth_name=Horatius Holipheal Coleman
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|2|22}}
| birth_place = Sandersville, Georgia, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|12|13|1892|2|22}}
| death_place = Detroit, Michigan, United States
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| congregations = Greater Macedonia Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan
New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan
First Baptist Institutional Church, Detroit, Michigan
Beulah Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia
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| spouse = Mamie L. Coleman (née Jordan), Bertha Coleman (Bentley)
2 children = Juanita Meek Brown (b. 1914), Rev. Horatius H.Coleman Jr. (b. 1938)
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The Reverend Horatius Holipheal Coleman (February 22, 1892 – December 13, 1969), better known as H. H. Coleman, was an American church pastor and evangelist. Reverend Coleman, who was born in Sandersville, Georgia, was senior pastor of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, from 1935 until his death in 1969. He was the paternal great-grandfather of former U.S. Representative Kendrick B. Meek,http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/meek.htm {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=June 2022}} and the maternal grandfather of actress Barbara Meek.
Rev. Coleman was a good friend of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., father of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On May 3, 1936, King Jr. (age 7) was baptized at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, after a two-week annual revival that was led by Rev. H. H. Coleman (serving as guest evangelist).{{Cite web|url=http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/article/volume_1_called_to_serve_january_1929_june_1951_chronology/|title = Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project|date = 11 June 2014}}
References
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- "Revival Drawing Fine Crowds at Ebenezer." Atlanta Daily World 21 April 1936. p. 1
External links
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- [https://archive.today/20130221100430/http://beulahatl.ctsmemberconnect.net/webpage-info.do?webPageId=239282&view=0&grpId=20314 An historical look at Beulah Baptist Church]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090828042140/http://www.fbiconline.org/about%20us.html First Baptist Institutional Church - About Us]
- [http://www.nbbcdetroit.org/Ministries/Usher%20Ministry.html New Bethel Baptist Church - Usher Ministry]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121130025443/http://www.newcalvarybaptist.org/newcalvaryhistory.html History of Calvary Baptist Church]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100613043553/http://mipbc.org/history/history.html Michigan Progressive Baptist Convention - History]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=-LkDAAAAMBAJ&dq=rev.+h.h.+Coleman&pg=PA45 Jet Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 1, p. 45- Apr 14, 1966 - Google Books]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=abgDAAAAMBAJ&dq=horatius+coleman&pg=PA56 Jet Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 21, p. 56- Mar 2, 1967 - Google Books]
- [http://michigancitizen.com/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-in-michigan-p8237-106.htm Lee, Paul. "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Michigan, 1945-68." The Michigan Citizen]
- [http://www.ebay.com/itm/REV-H-H-COLEMAN-Family-Resposibility-LP-Detroit-sermon/310316715828 Rev. H.H. Coleman Family Responsibility LP Detroit Sermon - Ebay]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=jNUgAQAAIAAJ&q=horatius+coleman Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, 1969 Volume 4, pp. 3638-3639 - Memorial to Reverend H.H. Coleman - Snippet]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=bRDAQSK9DlkC&dq=h.h.+coleman+sermon&pg=PA112 Salvatore, Nick. "Singing in a strange land: C.L. Franklin, the Black church, and the Transformation of America" : Little, Brown, pp. 112 and 229 - Google Books]
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Category:20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States