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The Black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, [1] as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.
Black Methodism in the United States (3 C, 1 P) C. ... National Baptist Convention, USA (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Historically African-American Christian ...
The Music of Black Americans: A History (1997) Spencer, Jon Michael. Black hymnody: a hymnological history of the African-American church (1992) Wills, David W. and Richard Newman, eds. Black Apostles at Home and Abroad: Afro-Americans and the Christian Mission from the Revolution to Reconstruction (1982) Woodson, Carter G. (2009) [1928].
The National Baptist Convention, USA, is one of four major Black Baptist denominations in the U.S. and is the oldest and largest of the four. The denomination, with between 5.2 million and 7.5 ...
Historically African-American Christian denominations (8 C, 44 P) Historically black Christian schools (2 C, 1 P) M. Black Methodism in the United States (3 C, 1 P) R.
The Church of God in Christ is a predominantly black denomination, with 84% of their members being black, 5% being white, and 8% being Latino. [36] Other Pentecostal churches, such as Assemblies of God and the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) , are fairly racially diverse.
Overall, the National Baptist Convention continues to remain one of the largest historically and predominantly African American or Black Christian denominations in the United States; separated bodies, such as the theologically conservative-to-moderate National Baptist Convention of America, have stagnated in membership (2000's 3,500,000 members ...
By 1906, the AME had a membership of about half a million, more than the combined predominantly black American denominations—the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, making it the largest major African-American denomination of the Methodist tradition.