Black Baptist women’s national organizing faced sustained male resistance from churchmen.

Evidence

The formation of the Woman’s Convention in 1900 followed five years after the formation of the National Baptist Convention. The later date for women reflected not an afterthought but a hard-fought struggle for gender self-determination that began before 1895 and continued throughout the first two decades of the twentieth century. The black Baptist women’s quest for national identity and voice draws attention to gender relations as relations of power in black communities, for their efforts, like earlier ones at the state level, incurred male resistance. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 691

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the intra-community friction — the internal policing axis of respectability politics arose partly because women had to justify themselves to resistant male church leadership. — connects to: Black Baptist women faced pulpit and voice denial even among supportive male leaders — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 340; Black Baptist women’s separatism stemmed from gender conflict with men as much as racism. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 338; Male denominational leaders tried to subordinate autonomous black women’s organizations — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 738 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Male denominational leaders tried to subordinate autonomous black women’s organizations #corroborates (0.95) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 738
• Black Baptist women faced pulpit and voice denial even among supportive male leaders #corroborates (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 340
• Black Baptist women first contested male convention unity claims by organizing separately #corroborates (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 580
• Black Baptist women’s separatism stemmed from gender conflict with men as much as racism. #expands (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 338
• The black church simultaneously united and divided men and women by gender #corroborates (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 702
• Black women leaders contested the equation of church authority with ordination #qualifies (0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 367