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The tradition of black people occupying significant leadership positions continued into the twentieth century and some of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders came from Boston. It is a well-known fact that the civil rights revolution began in black churches, which could mobilize their members into a mass movement. People who possessed oratorical skills [...]

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 [...]