M. Carl Holman (June 27, 1919 – August 9, 1988) was an American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights advocate who was born in Minter City, Mississippi and died in Washington, D.C.[1] One of his noted works is The Baptizin‘ (1971).
[2] He then earned another master's degree from Yale University in 1954, which he attended on a creative writing scholarship.
At one time, he edited the Atlanta Inquirer, a weekly black journal at Clark College that reported on civil rights issues in the South.
[3] He served on the Washington, D.C. Board of Higher Education, which governed the school then known as Federal City College.
He also served as a housing consultant to the mayor of Washington, D.C. From 1971 to 1988, he served as president of the National Urban Coalition, an organization formed after the riots of 1967, where he advocated for programs in housing, education, employment, and economic development.