Text transcribed from caption: P-31560 NEGRO BAPTIST CONVENTION MEETS DETROIT -- Dr. Joseph H. Jackson of Chicago, president of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., is welcomed on arriving in Detroit for the denomination's annual meeting. With him is Dr. Mary O. Ross, president of the denominational women's auxiliary. With about 5,500,000 members, the Convention is the largest Negro church group in this country. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (HW-DET-9B-64-NAB)

Ward, H. (photographer)

1964

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 9 x 7 1/2 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Jackson, J. H. (Joseph Harrison), 1900-1990.
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America--Congresses.
Ross, Mary O.
National Baptist Convention of the United States of America.

African American Baptists.
Congresses and conventions--Michigan--Detroit.
African American clergy.
African American Christians.
Baptist women.
African American women clergy.
Women clergy.

Michigan
Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.)
North and Central America--United States--Michigan--Wayne--Detroit

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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