Jesse Edward Moorland (September 10, 1863 – April 30, 1940) was an American minister, community executive, civic leader and book collector.
Moorland attended Northwestern Normal University in Ada, Ohio.
Then he moved to Washington, D.C., where he attended the Theological department of Howard University and earned his master's degree in 1891.
In 1914, Kelly Miller, a leading African-American intellectual, persuaded Moorland to donate his large private library on blacks in Africa and in the United States as the foundation for a proposed "Negro-Americana Museum and Library" at Howard University.
[4] He co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) with Carter G. Woodson in 1915.