Baptist missionary women adopted social-work monitoring of young urban female migrants
Evidence
In 1912 Layten proudly announced her affiliation with the National Urban League, and in her annual speech in 1915 she devoted considerable attention to female urban migration. She advised women’s missionary societies to participate in protective work by acquainting themselves with young working women in their respective areas, investigating their places of employment, monitoring their housing situation, and learning how and where these young women found amusement. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 838
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: the church lady as proto-caseworker — how moral surveillance of migrant women’s leisure prefigures modern social-work paternalism over poor women’s lives.
- XREF: connects to: Black Baptist women prioritized preventive over rescue social work — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1508; Black Baptist women’s church work absorbed secular Progressive-era sociological methods — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 791; Black Baptist women leaders bridged church and secular reform networks — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 829 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Black Baptist women’s church work absorbed secular Progressive-era sociological methods
#expands(0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 791 - Black Baptist women’s reform agenda drew on white urban sociology
#corroborates(0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1492 - Black Baptist women prioritized preventive over rescue social work
#qualifies(0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1508 - Black Baptist women leaders bridged church and secular reform networks
#expands(0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 829 - Missionary expeditions scripted local converts as guided investigators
#expands(0.74) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 356