Elias Morris

Elias Camp Morris of Helena (Phillips County), an African American minister who served as president of the National Baptist Convention (NBC), the largest denomination of Black Christians in the United States; circa 1901.

African-American man with mustache in suit and bow tie

From the Black history photograph collection (BC.PHO.4), courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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