![]() She said the barber shop was “the pulse of the community.” “His platform, his pulpit, was his barber shop,” Joseph said. John Inman is remembered as a voice for the oppressed. “Our family is deeply appreciative and honored that this is being bestowed upon our father.” Saturday at Mount Zion, located at 333 Martin Luther King Drive. He said it would be the latest of a series of historical markers throughout the East Side, which Salas has made possible through the city of San Antonio. Salas said he wanted to do it “so (John’s) memory, what he did, wouldn’t be lost to history.” To honor her father, Salas arranged to have a historical marker erected outside historic Mount Zion First Baptist Church, where Inman worshipped and just down the street from his barber shop once stood. Janice Inman Joseph, John’s daughter, said wherever there was a fight against injustice, “Daddy was there.” SAN ANTONIO – John Inman may have been a barber by trade, but Mario Salas, a longtime activist, said he was “the most revolutionary barber I ever met.” ![]()
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