African American evangelists

Scope and Contents This is a small collection of materials generated by the evangelist healer and spiritual leader Rev. J. Gordon McPherson, known and self-proclaimed as the "Black Billy Sunday." Included in the collection is a letter to members from a New Orleans lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) which McPherson signed as a committee secretary for the Lodge about a trip to Cleveland for the 1926 Grand Lodge Session; the letter authors propose that they should turn out in large number...