Draft:Emery T. Morris

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Emery T. Morris (1849 - September 24, 1924) was a druggist, porter, engineer, public official, and civil rights leader in the United States. He was a nephew of lawyer and civil rights leader Robert Morris.

He was involved in the Niagara Movement and then the National Negro Political League. His life is commemorated by a historical marker. He and William Monroe Trotter split with the Niagara Movement to found the NNPL, led by blacks unlike the NAACP at the time.

He was part of the National Equal Rights League and signed, along with others, a letter to president Woodrow Wilson during World War I about racial discrimination. He acquired a library of anti-slavery books.

He was buried at the Cambridge Cemetery.

He was active in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area and the residence where he did organizing has undergone restoration.