Black church | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/12/2018

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Black church


00:01:39 1 History
00:01:47 1.1 Slavery
00:05:21 1.2 Free Blacks
00:10:46 1.3 Reconstruction
00:14:52 1.4 Civil Rights Movement
00:15:29 2 Politics and social issues
00:17:10 3 Black theology
00:18:48 4 As neighborhood institutions
00:19:48 5 Traditions
00:20:20 6 Historically black denominations
00:20:42 6.1 African Methodist Episcopal Church
00:22:33 6.2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
00:23:47 6.3 National Baptist Convention
00:24:27 6.4 Church of God in Christ
00:25:38 6.5 Other denominations
00:26:46 7 See also



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The term black church or African-American  church refers to Protestant churches that currently or historically have ministered to predominantly black congregations in the United States. While some black churches belong to predominantly African-American denominations, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), many black churches are members of predominantly white denominations, such as the United Church of Christ (which developed from the Congregational Church of New England).Most of the first black congregations and churches formed before 1800 were founded by free blacks – for example, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Springfield Baptist Church (Augusta, Georgia); Petersburg, Virginia; and Savannah, Georgia. The oldest black Baptist church in Kentucky, and third oldest in the United States, was founded about 1790 by the slave Peter Durrett.After slavery was abolished, segregationist attitudes in both the North and the South discouraged and even prevented African Americans from worshiping in the same churches as whites. Freed blacks most often established congregations and church facilities separate from their white neighbors, who were often their former masters. These new churches created communities and worship practices that were culturally distinct from other churches, including forms of Christianity that derived from African spiritual traditions.
African-American churches have long been the centers of communities, serving as school sites in the early years after the Civil War, taking up social welfare functions, such as providing for the indigent, and going on to establish schools, orphanages and prison ministries. As a result, black churches were particularly important during the civil rights movement.