Editing Garrett Morgan (section)

==Community leadership==
In 1908, he co-founded the Cleveland Association of Colored Men, which later merged with the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]].<ref name=ClevelandHistory/><ref name=CAOCM>[http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CAOCM Cleveland Association of Colored Men] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920013553/http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CAOCM |date=September 20, 2016 }}, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Case Western Reserve University.</ref><ref name="Black Inventor" /> Morgan served as its treasurer.<ref name="Black Inventor" /> He was a member of the [[NAACP]] and donated money to [[historically black colleges and universities]].<ref name=PBS/>

In 1920, Morgan founded the ''Cleveland Call'', a weekly newspaper. In 1938, he participated in its merger with another paper, which created the ''[[Cleveland Call and Post]]'' newspaper.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia= The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|url= http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CCP|title= The Cleveland Call & Post|publisher= Case Western Reserve University|access-date= January 28, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120607191418/http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CCP|archive-date= June 7, 2012 }}</ref>  Morgan purchased a farm near [[Wakeman, Ohio]], and upon that land build the Wakeman Country Club, open to Blacks, unlike most country clubs then.

Morgan was a member of the [[Prince Hall Freemason]]s, in Excelsior Lodge No. 11 of Cleveland, Ohio.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gray|first1=David|title=The History of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Ohio F&AM 1971–2011: The Fabric of Freemasonry|date=2012|publisher=Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Ohio|location=Columbus, Ohio|isbn=978-0-615-63295-7|page=157}}</ref> He belonged to Antioch Baptist Church.<ref name= Ohiolink />

In 1931, believing that Cleveland was not properly addressing the needs of its African American citizens, Morgan ran for a seat on the [[Cleveland City Council]] as an independent, but was not elected.<ref name="Bianco" /><ref name="FHWA" />