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

Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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