What Morgan Means To Me

On Christmas Day 1866, a year and a half after the end of the Civil War, the Methodist Episcopal Church approved the creation of the Centenary Biblical Institute in Baltimore, granting $5,000 to trustees to launch a seminary for African Americans.The African-American members and former slaves who served as ministers at Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church, had led the push for the creation of a theological institute in Baltimore. But soon after its founding, the Centenary Biblical Institute broadened its mission and began educating men and women as teachers, as well as future pastors. And in 1890, it was renamed Morgan College, in honor of the Rev. Lyttleton Morgan, who donated land to the college and served as the first Board of Trustees chairman.