Abstract

T HIS is a study of the personal and social characteristics of the rural Negro minister. It includes 141 ministers who attended the Summer School for Ministers at Virginia State College from 1943-1946.' Ninety ministers pastored rural churches only, 15 pastored urban churches only; 27 pastored both rural and urban churches; and nine were not pastoring. The 132 ministers pastoring churches served 305 churches in as many communities located in 60 counties, representing every significant subregion in the State in which Negroes comprise a significant part of the population.

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