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Footnotes 1427
the Negro mechanic to learn the needs of his community and how he may supply
them.** (Carter G. Woodson, The History of the Negro Church [ 1921 ], pp. 267-268.)
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Organizations and Activities of 609 Urban Churches
Organizations and Activities
Numbc»* of
Churches
Per Cent
Frequency
Preaching 609 100,0
Union services and interchurch cooperation 609 100.0
Missionary societies 609 100.0
Clubs (Social, Educational, Financial) 609 100.0
Sunday church school 608 99.8
Poor relief 590 96.9
Revivals 561 92.1
Choirs 503 82.6
Young People’s work 398 65.4
Prayer Meetings 388 63.7
Recreational work 191 31-4
Pastors’ aid boards 77 12.6
Gymnasium classes 30 4.9
Church papers 22 3.6
Extension work in missions 21 ’
3-4
Feeding the unemployed 18 3.0
Junior churches 13 2.1
Daily vacation Bible school 10 1.6
Benevolent societies 6 I.O
Clinic (free) 5 0.8
Motion pictures 5 0.8
Cooperate Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. 5 0.8
Girl Scouts 5 0.8
Boy Scouts 5 0.8
Kindergarten 4 0.7
Nurseries (day) 3 0.5
Source: Benjamin B. Mays and Joseph W. Nicholson, The Negroes Church (X933)t PP* I2a-Z33.
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), p. 190.
Allison Davis, “The Negro Church and Associations in the Lower South,** unpub-
lished manuscript prepared for this study (1940), pp. 63-64.
Drake, “The Negro Church and Associations in Chicago,*’ pp. 273-274.
pp. 274-277.
The information for this paragraph on the relation of church to politics is taken
from ibid»y pp. 231-235, and from Harold F. Gosnell, Negro Politicians (1935)1
pp. 94-100.
Gosnell, of. cit.^ pp. 94-100. We have noted, in Chapter 22, Section 4, that the
Northern Negro manifests unusual interest in politics.
Davis, Of. cit.y p. 85; and Powdermaker, of. cit., p. 238.
The facts in the remainder of this paragraph are taken from Mays and Nicholson,
Of. cit.y pp. 168-197.
^ IbU.y p. 195.
This can bt inferred from Table 4 since practically all Northern Negroes *are
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