By Canter Brown Jr.
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of articles sponsored by New Bethel AME Church History Project with
Dr. Brown serving as consulting historian. The Rev. Charles Morris pastors New Bethel.
Gadsden County’s pioneer African Methodist congregations produced or fostered a striking number of men and women who not only touched the community but also the state and nation. Their impacts ranged from pastoral to political, academic to artistic.