id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-10188 Williams, Dorothy G. National Negro Organizations and Their Publications 1946-01-01 6 .pdf application/pdf 4401 258 68 T h e Negro adult church membership (persons 13 years of age and over) reported by the United States census of religious bodies in 1936 totaled 5,660,618, representing 46 per cent of the entire Negro population, while the value of 38,303 Negro church edifices re- ported in the same year was $164,531,531.1 T h e r e are today thirty-three denominations that are entirely Negro, of which four (the Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and Colored Methodist Episcopal) are of pre- ponderant importance, since to them belong 83 per cent of all the adult Negro church members in the United States.2 T h e func- tional importance .of A f u r t h e r aim of the study was to find out to w h a t extent libraries cache/crl-10188.pdf txt/crl-10188.txt