Morris College is located in Sumter, South Carolina and was founded in 1908 by Jacob J. Durham. Doctor Durham received an A.B. from Fisk in 1880, graduated valedictorian of Meharry Medical College with an M.D. in 1882 and received an A.M. from Fisk in 1885. He was an educator, an orator that spoke strongly against the lynching of African Americans, a Civil Rights Activist, A successful physician, and sat on the board of trustees at Morehouse College. The college tells the story of its founding as, “Under authorization granted by the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina in
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