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Henry Lyman Morehouse (October 2, 1834 – May 5, 1917) was a Baptist minister, hymns author and member of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York. Morehouse was born in 1834 in Stanford, New York. He joined the Baptist ministry in 1864 at the age of 30.
Henry Lyman Morehouse was a Baptist minister and head of the American Baptist Home Mission Society from 1879 to 1893 and from 1902 to 1917, serving in the intermittent years as field secretary for the organization.
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A term originally coined by white educator Henry Lyman Morehouse circa 1896, the Talented Tenth was (according to Morehouse) the one Black man out of ten who possessed “superior natural endowments” and could, with prodigious education, become “a greater inspiration to others than all the other nine.”
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24 giu 2024 · Henry Lyman Morehouse was a well-known Baptist denominational leader, who served the American Baptist Home Mission Society as corresponding secretary for 28 years (1879 – 1892, 1902 – 1917) and as field secretary for 9 years (1893 – 1902).
17 ago 2011 · Henry Lyman Morehouse; a biography : Crandall, Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus), 1850-1923 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Rev. Henry Lyman Morehouse, for whom Morehouse College came to be named, was a White Northerner, who held positions as Corresponding Secretary and Field Secretary for the American Baptist Home Mission Society (see the N.Y. Times obituary published 6 May 1917, p.19).
Henry Lyman Morehouse coined the term, the talented tenth, though many mistakenly attribute it to W.E.B. DuBois.
