The outreach of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to our Negro citizens (through the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference) from 1877 until shortly after World War I was primarily in the South; a..
The outreach of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to our Negro citizens (through the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference) from 1877 until shortly after World War I was primarily in the South; and perhaps seventy-five per cent of the work done in the South was carried on within the geographic limits of the Southern District of the Synod, in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.