How many desegregated churches existed before about 1960 of so?

Question

I bet there were very few. Unfortunately, The Mormon faith was included in that extremely large congregation.

Answer 1

Wrong. The LDS church was one of the very few churches in teh 19th and early 20th centuries that did NOT segregate their congregations by race.

Answer 2

I don't know how many there were, but I did desegregate one.
I still remember the look on the faces when the lily white college boy walked right into the worship service. After about 4 seconds we all broke out into big smiles at each other and started singing. The fellowship lacked any of the strain I feared would be there.
That was in 1969 in Rome, Georgia.

Answer 3

I was 8 years old in 1960 and I'm older than most folks on Yahoo.

So I don't think anyone knows the answer to your question.

A better question might be, which churches are segregated and which churches are integrated today.

Pastor Art

Answer 4

If you lived during that time you would know that both parties chose to be separate. But there were always people who worshiped together regardless of color because we are all one in Christ. At that time the blacks felt we were too stiff, and we thought they were too loud. In other words, they had a more spirited worship than we did. However there were times we met together and had a wonderful time.

Answer 5

actually, in the northern u.s., most churches were not segregated - it may have been that most people chose to go to churches that had predominantly homogenous membership... but that's no different from today.