National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., is the oldest and largest African American religious organization and the one to which most African American Baptists belong. The convention is not a single church but an organization of thousands of Baptist churches. The convention promotes home and foreign missions, encourages and supports Christian education, and publishes and distributes Sunday school and other religious literature. The convention was organized in 1880 in Montgomery, Alabama, as the Foreign Mission Convention and incorporated under its present name in 1915. It has headquarters in Nashville.
See also Baptists ; National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. .
