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The largest religious denominations continued to amass more wealth and it was due to the fact that the 20th century brought the most dramatic cultural, social and economic changes. Moreover, by the 1930s the white Baptist churches had twice as few members as the black Baptists, which is an interesting fact to note. As a [...]

Kansas City in its early days was the arena of fierce competition between the largest religion groups - Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists - in order to gain domination. Jews, Episcopalians and Catholics were among the other smaller groups whose political, economic and social presence was also visible. Being too centralized, Presbyterians, lacked pastors and ministers [...]