1865 to 1868
The Reverend Henry Highland White followed Reverend Anderson and served a three year tenure at Eighth Street steadily moving the church forward. An eminent theologian and scholar, Reverend White was one of the organizers of the Missouri Baptist Convention and also one of the founders of Western College (now Western Baptist Seminary, Kansas City, MO).
Reverend White also conducted a private church in the basement of the Eighth Street Church to help the newly emancipated African Americans learn how to read and write.
