Description: Ellis Green, left, Pastor Harrison Street Presbyterian Church in Longview, and Richard Copeland, center, pastor of the Beacon Hill Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, listen to David Shipley’s plans for his church. Mr. Shipley is the pastor of the…
Description: Green, a native of Edna, TX, was Austin Seminary’s first African-American graduate in 1958 and was ordained in the Northeast Texas Presbytery. This letter describes Rev. Green’s untimely death in 1971.