Lacey Kirk Williams

Biography

Lacey Kirk Williams (July 11, 1871, Eufaula, Alabama - October 29, 1940) was an African-American who served as President of the National Baptist Convention from 1922 to 1940 and as Vice President of the World Baptist Alliance between 1928 and 1940. He died in an aeroplane crash in 1940. Williams was born in 1871 on the Shorter Plantation near Eufaula, Alabama, to Levi and Elizabeth Williams, who had formerly been enslaved. The family migrated to Texas in 1878. After being educated at Bishop College in Texas and Arkansas Baptist College, he was ordained to the ministry in 1894 at the Thankful Baptist Church in Pitt Bridge, Texas. In 1910 he became pastor of the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Fort Worth. In 1916 he became pastor of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago.

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