The National Baptist Convention claimed over sixty percent of black church members by 1906.

Evidence

The National Baptist Convention, which existed apart from the powerful white Northern Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist Convention, constituted the largest and most representative sample of the black churchgoing population. In 1906 it had 2,261,607 members, while the second largest denominational membership, African Methodist Episcopal, had only 494,777. The National Baptist Convention included 61.4 percent of all black church members in the United States. … By 1916 National Baptists numbered 2,938,579. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 57

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1895 National Baptist Convention marked the peak of race-conscious institutional organizing. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 56; The National Baptist Convention asserted autonomous control of black racial life — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 327; Black Baptists formed a racially bounded imagined community claiming sovereign autonomy from white control — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1076 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The National Baptist Convention asserted autonomous control of black racial life #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 327
• By 1916 the National Baptist Convention outnumbered every white Baptist body in America. #corroborates (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 58
• Black Baptists formed a racially bounded imagined community claiming sovereign autonomy from white control #expands (0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1076