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September 5, 1922
Elias Camp Morris died at his son’s home in Little Rock (Pulaski County). An African-American minister who became president of the National Baptist Convention, the largest denomination of black Christians in the United States, he was acknowledged as a liaison between the black and white communities. Morris oversaw the establishment of a denominational newspaper and assisted in the establishment of a black seminary which, in 1884, became Arkansas Baptist College.