THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
COLORED CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 1890-1906.
Denomination.
All denominations consisting in whole or in part of colored organizations
Denominations consisting wholly of colored organizations
Baptist bodies:
Baptists — National Convention
Colored Primitive Baptists in America 1
United American Freewill Baptists
Church of God and Saints of Christ
Churches of the Living God :
Church of the Living God (Christian Workers for Friendship)
Church of the Living God (Apostolic Church)
Church of Christ in God
Evangelistic associations:
Voluntary Missionary Society of America
Free Christian Zion Church of Christ
Methodist bodies:
Union American Methodist Episcopal Church
African Methodist Episcopal Church .........
African Union Methodist Protestant Church
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Congregational Methodist
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church
Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church
Evangelist Missionary Church
Presbyterian bodies:
Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church
31,393
Denominations consisting in part of colored organizations
Adventist bodies:
Advent Christian Church
Seventh-day Adventist Denomination
Baptist bodies :
Baptists — Northern Convention .
Baptists — Southern Convention
Free Baptists
Primitive Baptists 2
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
Christians (Christian Connection)
Churches of God in North America, General Eldership of the
Congregationalists
Disciples or Christians:
Disciples of Christ
Churches of Christ
Independent churches
Lutheran bodies:
United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South
General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America
Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of America. Methodist bodies:
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Protestant Church
Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America
Independent Methodists
Moravian bodies:
Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum)
Presbyterian bodies:
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . .
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church in the United States
Associate Reformed Synod of the South
Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North
America
Protestant Episcopal Church
Reformed bodies:
Reformed Church in America
Reformed Episcopal Church
Roman Catholic Church
United Brethren bodies:
Church of the United Brethren in Christ
Number of Colored Organizations.
36,770
18,534
6,647
2,204
2,381
5,377
3,750
23,462
19,158
12,533
2,481
1,704
1,759
ii
4,304
"15
"85
2,984
"45
Number op Communicants or Members Reported.
3,207,307
3,685,097
2,321,313
2,261,607
35,076
14,489
1,823
2,676
1,835
4,347 494,777
5,592 184,542
172,996 3,059 4,397
18,066
477,790
32,639
10,876
7,545
11,960
9,705
1,528
308,551 2,612
1,258
27,799
1,183
19,098
2,252
38,235
2,673,977
1,348,989 18,162
2,279 452,725
3,415
349,788
129,383
2,346
12,956
352,664
35,221
4,989
6,908 j- 18,578
246,249 3,183
14,961 i,568
2,977
1,723 14,517
Value or Church Property Reported.
$56,636,159
44,673,049
24,437,272
296,539
79,278
6,000
23,175
25,700
9,700
2,400 5,975
170,150
11,303,489
183,697
4,833,207
3,017,849 37,875 36,965
203,778
11,963,110
3,800 6,474
1,561,326
i86,130 2,300
69,505
5,500
459,497
170,265
14,950
2,750
5,000 10,000
6,104,379 62,651 21,000
8,000
752,387
1,000
32,850
1,773,279
28,287 678,480
3,100
$26,626,448
20,525,141
9,038,549 135,427
187,600
6,468,280
54,440
2,714,128
1,713,366
15,000
2,000 195,826
6,101,307
1,087,518
3,875
13,300
23,500
246,i25
176,795
1,750
13,400
3,630,093 35,445
4,675
391,650
' 22,266
1,500 192,750
18,401 237,400
1 The organizations shown for this denomination in 1890 were returned at that census as belonging to the Primitive Baptist denomination.
2 The colored organizations returned for this denomination in 1890 are included in the present report as belonging to the Colored Primitive Baptists in America.
RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Negro Evangelization
COLORED CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS BY STATES AND TERRITORIES, 1906.
Value of Church
DEBT ON
CHURCH
Number of Colored
MEMBERS.
Property.
PROPERTY.
Number
Total Number
Reported.
STATE OR TERRITORY.
Organizations.
of Organizations
Reporting.
of Organizations
Reporting.
Value Reported.
Number of Organizations Reporting.
Amount
of debt
Reported.
36,770
36,563
3,685,097
34,660
$56,636,159
9,003
85,005,905
1,026
1,021
134,711
8,363,962
1,585,575
3,000
1,600
9,402
646,425
159,508
2,114
184,346
37,350
4,492
379,855
44,264
30,482
2,366,796
513,412
28,015
1,289,335
231,632
Pennsylvania ....
60,161
3,494,205
597,809
South Atlantic division
15,250
15,163
1,741,491
14,448
21,779,621
3,584
1,692,995
10,583
319,832
40,836
71,797
1,979,408
314,861
District of Columbia
46,249
2,051,942
328,454
1,983
1,974
307,374
1,874
3,562,930
308,680
14,949
496,946
42,282
North Carolina
2,813
2,797
283,707
2,610
3,238,735
127,879
2,860
2,853
394,149
2,808
3,366,223
145,878
4,834
4,790
507,005
4,608
5,125,207
1,182
264,966
1,638
1,634
105,678
1,542
1,638,398
119,159
North Central division
2,023
2,012
166,356
1,872
5,824,226
681,494
Ohio
33,667
1,473,251
125,636
23,133
596,625
73,680
32,058
1,040,148
165,422
Michigan
3,235
167,950
17,009
26,850
1,453
74,300
5,362
4,108
167,125
25,711
50,074
1,690,119
229,805
3,900
1,700
1,007
73,500
2,130
17,273
510,458
34,188
South Central division
18,341. 1,007
18,237
1,634,055
17,322
19,863,508
4,036
963,785
1,005
116,918
1,845,538
102,328
1,879
1,855
172,867
1,743
2,631,502
136,630
3,734
3,715
397,178
3,474
3,920,253
168,554
3,877
3,863
358,708
3,741
3,524,880
139,001
2,085
2,067
185,918
2,032
2,796,242
158,708
2,094
2,081
146,319
1,992
1,628,303
77,810
Oklahoma '
3,047
3,035
29,115 227,032
2,833
410,689 3,106,101
31,957
Texas
148,797
8,484
804,842
82,056
11,650
10,000
Colorado
2,507
241,455
26,494
New Mexico
10,050
7,500
Utah
4,000
57,900
6,125
44,000
3,950
4,564
418,287
44,209
1 Oklahoma and Indian Territory combined.
3. Denominational Evangelization: Evangelization of Negroes through the various sects may be set forth as follows:
a. Methodists: The history of the Negro in the Methodist Episcopal Church is of far-reaching interest in any study of the relation of the white and black races in the United States. This is the one church with a centralized episcopal government which has a large membership, and the efforts to adjust the races in this organization throw light on the problem in the whole country.
There were in 1790, 11,682 Negro members of
this church; in 1890, 246,249 Negro members, and in 1906, 327,000. The color question in the church cropped out very early. In 1800 colored deacons were allowed; in 1844 the church split on the slavery question and many Negro congregations in border states were left without pastors. They asked for colored ministers and conferences, and the colored ministers were authorized and a colored annual conference was established in 1852. In 1856 and 1866 two Negro bishops were sent to Africa. In 1864 colored annual conferences were recognized and raised to full powers, and Negro bishops sat as
Negro Evangelization Nehemiah