Herman Mason interview, August 14, 2012

Reverend and historian Herman ‘Skip’ Mason was born on July 14, 1962 in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1992, Mason founded Digging It Up, a full scale African American research and consulting firm which he later renamed Skip Mason’s Archives in 1998. Mason also became the pastor of Greater Hopewell Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Atlanta and later, pastor of St. James C.M.E. Church in Washington, Georgia. Mason served as Morehouse College’s archivist and interim director of Student Affairs.