A national women’s constituency let ex-slaves’ daughters achieve recognition otherwise denied them

Evidence

By the standards of most Americans, white or black, some of these opportunities would be exceptional. More exceptional, however, was the fact that daughters of slaves, by welding a powerful national constituency, had engineered the mechanism by which they came to enjoy unimaginable recognition. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 779

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own focus: the ‘politics of respectability’ machinery of these women’s organizations as both uplift and internal policing. — connects to: Northern Baptist colleges created the educated black women who led the convention movement. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 119; A single mother achieved national black leadership without a husband’s support — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 732