Dec 5  From Classroom to the Congo
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-12-05

Madeline England presents today's Natchez History Minute about the amazing journey of Bertha Stebbins Morrison who was born on this day, December 5 in 1877.  While a teacher at the Natchez Institute, Bertha met and married William Morrison and returned with him to his missionary work in the Belgian Congo.  While her husband exposed the atrocities of the Belgian king, Bertha was embraced by the Congolese people.