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C. Herbert Oliver

C. Herbert Oliver

C. Herbert Oliver (ThM, Westminster Theological Seminary) was a civil rights activist and pastor. Along with other local ministers in Birmingham, Alabama, he founded the Inter-Citizens Committee in 1960 and documented over a hundred civil rights violations until 1965. He served as pastor of Bethel Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Ludlow-Smyrna and Houlton in Maine before moving to Brooklyn, New York, where he was pastor of Westminster Bethany Presbyterian Church from 1967 to 1992 and where he currently resides.

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