Some, to be sure, are not regularly enrolled, and a few do not habitually attend services; but, practically, a proscribed people must have a social centre, and that centre for this people is the Negro church.
Du Bois explains that for a marginalized population, the Black church serves as an indispensable social hub and community anchor.
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