Jesse E. Moorland
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Jesse Edward Moorland (September 10, 1863 - 1939) was a black minister, community executive, and civic leader.
Born in Coldwater, Ohio, he was the only child of a farming family. Moorland attended Northwestern Normal University in Ada, Ohio. In 1891, he received his masters degree from the Theological department of Howard University and was ordained a Congressional minister and appointed secretary of the Washington D. C. branch of the YMCA the same year.
Moorland then devoted himself black social organizations such as the National Health Circle for Colored People, and he helped found the Association for the Study of African American Life and History with Carter G. Woodson in 1915. That same year he donated his personal library on black history to Howard University. This collection formed the foundation of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. [1]
Moorland was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
Jesse Moorland died in New York in 1939.
