152 A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE
The A. M. E. Zion Church is another of the
powerful religious denominations among the col¬
ored people, and is everywhere urging the race to
a higher standard of living in all respects. Their
membership is in the neighborhood of 500,000.
They support and control, entirely, Livingston Col¬
lege, of Salisbury, N. C, a progressive and well-
manned institution, and the Star of Zion, the church
organ, ably edited by Mr. John C. Dancy. The Liv¬
ingston College Faculty is all colored, and it has
property valued at over $100,000.
The Northern Methodist Church supports
many churches in the South ministered over by
colored pastors. There are several schools sup¬
ported by them, prominent among which is Bennet
College of Greensboro, N. C, and controlled en¬
tirely by a colored Faculty. Other schools of this
denomination, manned by white Faculties, are, with
Bennet College, doing a most necessary and bene¬
ficial work among the colored people. So might be
mentioned schools and churches supported by
Northern Presbyterians, Northern Congregational-
ists, Episcopalians, and other denominations, all of
which are to be reckoned as great uplifting agencies
among the colored people. Some of the Northern
societies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars
every year on Negro education and religion in the
South. The daily expenditure of the American
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