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Identifier: negroinchicagost00chic_0 (find matches)
Title: The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Chicago Commission on Race Relations
Subjects: African Americans Race riots
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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an entirely Negro membership with Negropastors. Store-front churches.—The store-front church membership is merelya small group which, for one reason or another, has sought to worship inde-pendently of any connection with the larger churches. The establishmentof such a church may be the result of a withdrawal of part of the membershipof a larger church. They secure a pastor or select a leader from their ownnumber and continue their worship in a place where their notions are not inconflict with other influences. Most frequently a minister formerly in theSouth has come with or followed his migrant members and has re-establishedhis church in Chicago. Or again a group with religious beliefs and ceremoniesnot in accord with those of established churches may establish a church ofits own. The groups are usually so small and the members so poor as to makethe purchase of a building impossible. The custom has been to engage asmall store and put chairs in it. Hence the name store-front church.
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THE NEGRO POPULATION OF CHICAGO 145 Denominations.—The varieties of denominational divisions are wide andinteresting. A classification on the asis of information collected by theCommission is given in Table VII. TABLE VII Denomination Regular Store-Front Baptist: Missionary Baptist Free Will Baptist Primitive Baptist Methodist: Methodist Episcopal African Methodist Episcopal African Methodist Episcopal Zion.... Colored Methodist Episcopal Independent Methodist Episcopal.... Presbyterian Episcopal Congregational Disciples of Christ Saints, Holiness, and Healing Churches. Total 19 45 6124 20 102 The steady growth in the number of churches is shown in the dates oforganization of sixty-five of them as given in Table VEIL TABLE VIII Year Number 1825-50 2 185O-80 2 1880-00 5 1890-1900 5 1900-1910 5 1910-15 12 iQ^-1^ 4 1917 3 1918 15 IQIQ 6 1920 6 Total 65 Church property.—It was not easy to determine the amount of money raisedand handled by the Negro churches for any specific period, be

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