American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA)

American Baptist Churches USA. Known as “ABC-USA,” is a Baptist Christian denomination established in 1907 originally as the Northern Baptist Convention following a split with the Southern Baptists.

Schism. The word Southern in “Southern Baptist Convention” stems from its having been organized in 1845 in Georgia by white Baptists who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the Northern Baptists, who did not support funding slave-holding evangelists from the South.

Prominent adherents: Martin Luther King