Baptist women’s campaigns induced poor blacks to redirect money to schools

Evidence

Their fund-raising drives, children’s bands, self-denial days, and even temperance crusades all reinforced this message and influenced many poor, uneducated blacks to divert money from personal consumption into the building of schools. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 316

Categorization

• QUESTION: The mechanism whereby poor blacks ‘divert money’ from consumption—what forms of persuasion worked and resisted?
• XREF: connects to: Black social Christianity rested on many small givers, not wealthy patrons; Black Baptist women’s conventions financed black educational institutions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 308; Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 316