An investor’s purchase of the longtime home of the late Rev. Claude Black Jr., one of San Antonio’s civil rights icons, has some community members saying they are concerned how the sale could affect the leader’s legacy.
Black, a political and community leader in the 1960s and 1970s, was pastor of Mount Zion First Baptist Church for 49 years.
Redemption Property Solutions LLC now owns the property at 1211 Wyoming St. after buying shares of the property from relatives of the minister and paying unpaid property tax on the home, according to court records. The execution and order of the sale took place in March. The home, built in 1940 on the East Side, has an appraised value of $350,000…