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[CHAPTER 37]
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Churches, 190--1942.
In 1930, Louisiana had 2,776 churches of all denominations which were wholly or in part Negro. The actual number of Negro churches was 2,077. These had a total membership of 248,779, or an average of 120 members per church. The actual number of church edifices was 1,888; the number of churches reporting was 1,877, who said that the value of church edifices was $6,514,176, the average cost per church being $3,471. Of these churches 389 reported a total indebtedness of $633,819. Annual expenditures to the amount of $1,539,644 were reported by 1,966 churches, making an average per church of $738. There were 1,843 Sunday schools, 13,304 officers and teachers, and 87,867 students. Today as in former years, Negroes still receives from ruling whites more encouragement and approbation in their church organization and building programs than in any other group enterprise. This and other factors have resulted in a Negro near monopoly of the white man’s religious faiths. For example, “in proportion to population and actual church membership, Negroes have twice as many churches as whites.”1 This has resulted in so much rivalry and duplication of effort that it has been jokingly observed that “Baptist and Methodist Churches are like the Western Union and the Postal Telegraph. Where one is found the other is not far away.”2
In 1930 the Baptist denomination owned church buildings in the State valued at $3,275,174, thus ranking first by sheer weight of numbers; the Methodist Episcopal
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