Black and white women’s contact flowed north as well as south through missions.

Evidence

If one looks at the white missionary in the South as the only point of contact, a range of other contact points is overlooked, and it is this broader, more representative picture that was truly exceptional for its time. Women’s missions created structured avenues along which black and white women traveled together, heard each other’s voices, and learned of each other’s struggles and values. The white missionary, journeying South to teach the freedpeople, is but one component of a complex network that took black women into the North as well. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 480

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ch7’s claim that black Baptist separatism escalated only after white control blocked inclusion — here the author shows interracial cooperation was real and two-way. — connects to: Black Baptist women held a double consciousness of simultaneous separateness and alliance — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 390; Segregation confined black-white female contact to the servant-served relation; Black women traveled North within women’s missions, so interracial contact ran both directions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 480

Broader Connections

• Segregation confined black-white female contact to the servant-served relation #contradicts (0.75)