National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.

National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.

▪ formed 1895
      association of black Baptist churches formed in 1895 in Atlanta, Ga., from the merger of the Foreign Mission Baptist Convention (established 1880), the American National Baptist Convention (1886), and the Baptist National Education Convention (1893). A schism in 1915 resulted in the formation of the National Baptist Convention of America (National Baptist Convention of the United States of America, Inc.). In 1961 a dispute within the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., resulted in the establishment of a third organization, the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.

      The National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., has a mission program in the Bahamas and carries on home-mission and other programs. It holds an annual convention.

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