M. Carl Holman (1919-1988) Mr. Z LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY M. Carl Holman (1919–1988) Holman was born in Minter City, Mississippi, and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated magna cum laude from Lincoln University and earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale, which he attended on a creative writing scholarship. He taught as an English professor at Hampton University, Lincoln University, and Clark College. For a while, he edited the Atlanta Inquirer, a weekly publication that reported on civil rights activities in the South. In 1962, he moved to Washington, D.C., to become an information officer at the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, becoming its deputy director in 1966. From 1971 to 1988, he served as director of the Urban Coalition, an organization formed after the riots of 1967 for the purpose of forging partnerships between industry and government to promote inner-city development.