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* Disputed by U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, an ordained Northern Baptist minister, who insists that his Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has more active members.
* Membership of the Northern Baptist Conference: 1,500,000. The two major Negro Baptist groups are the National Baptist Convention of America with 3,500,000 members, and the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. with 5,000,000. About one million Baptists belong to splinter groups.