Black Baptist journals trained the majority of documented early black women journalists

Evidence

In the Afro-American Press and Its Editors (1891), I. Garland Penn devoted biographical sketches to nineteen women journalists, fourteen having contributed to black Baptist journals. Twelve of them worked as editors or correspondents for Our Women and Children. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 384

Categorization

• XREF: The Baptist press as a women’s professional pipeline complements the earlier literate-elite theme: print culture was the vehicle for women’s authority. — connects to: Black Baptist women’s organizations gained press influence through their own newspapers. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 379