This one comes from the collection of the New York Public Library. They also have the Monroe Broadcast newspaper from the mid 1930’s I would love to get my hands on, but they are not doing reproductions at this time. It is the earliest known African American newspaper in Monroe! Ah well.
This photo dates to 1901. I would love to know what church he pastored and what happened to him!
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7745-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
You might check out:
E. C. Morris, 1855-
Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences and Important Correspondence, With a Picture Gallery of Eminent Ministers and Scholars.
Nashville, Tenn.: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1901.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/morris/ill256.html
Maybe you can get it through interlibrary loan
The book is for sale on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Sermons-Addresses-Reminiscences-Important-Correspondence/dp/1946640050
I would say he was Baptist. Since he was trying to be a missionary he might not have been pastor of a church.
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