[8] After a fist fight between reformers and conservatives,[9] in which one elderly minister was accidentally killed, Jackson's supporters won.

Martin Luther King was ousted from the NBC USA and his goal of using the united power of the black Baptist community to promote civil rights came to nothing.

[10] Thirty-three delegates from 14 states gathered at Zion Baptist Church in Cincinnati to discuss the issue.

The convention has grown from the original founding numbers to member congregations throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa.

Famous civil rights leaders who were members of the PNBC include Martin Luther King Jr., Benjamin Mays, Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and Gardner C. Taylor.

In 2020, the Association of Religion Data Archives reported the PNBC had 254,571 members in 363 churches in the United States.

"[24] The Progressive National Baptist Convention also allows locally autonomous congregations to determine policy regarding same-sex marriages, and the PNBC has not taken an official stance on the issue, leaving room for diversity of opinion.