A plea for our work as colored Baptists, apart from the whites

Johnson, an African American Baptist minister from Baltimore, argues for a separate black Baptist denomination and institutions apart from the white Baptist establishment, claiming that separatism will, among other things, allow a better opportunity for African American leadership to emerge.
"A paper, read before the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the National Baptist Convention, held in Boston, Mass., September 14, 1897."
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