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13 Aug A Great Migration
1902
Rev. Dr. Charles Satchell Morris succeeded Robert Wynn as Abyssinian’s pastor. During Morris’s tenure, the Waverly Place church was sold and the income used to begin purchasing a church and apartment house on West 40th Street. The relocation of the church to 242 West 40th Street echoed a migration of the city’s black population uptown. When Morris’s health failed, he helped the church secure a new pastor.
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Rev. Charles Satchell Morris (left) with his father-in-law, activist Frederick Douglass