Forty-Fifth Anniversary Sketch Book: 1899-1944 Union Baptist Church

First edition. Octavo. 32pp. including advertisements for New Bedford businesses. Illustrated reproducing black-and-white photographs of Rev. Harris and the main building of the Union Baptist Church. Stapled blue-gray printed wrappers. Staples oxidized, else a near fine copy. Rev. Harris was a graduate of Talladega College, the Howard University School of Religion, Newton Theological Institute, and also received his Master of Sacred Theology from Boston University, School of Religion. The text also includes brief histories of the Second Baptist Church and the Salem Baptist Church, both of which were African-American churches that merged with the Union Baptist Church. Rare. No copy located by *OCLC.*.