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. Then he moved to Washington, DC, where he attended the Theological department of Howard University and earned his masters degree in 1891. He was ordained a Congressional minister. That same year he was hired as secretary of the Washington D. C. branch of the YMCA.
Moorland devoted himself to black social organizations, such as the National Health Circle for Colored People, as important for building community strength. Together with historian Carter G. Woodson, he helped found the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 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.
