Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance

Evidence

Women’s voices resounded within the rising nationalist crescendo. In the National Baptist Magazine, the organ of the National Baptist Convention, Amelia Johnson contended that America comprised two distinct groups, blacks and whites, who “do not have the same interests nor the same pursuits; and all does not go well.” Black women championed racial pride and dignity, and called upon blacks to patronize their own institutions. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 331

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Separate female institutions gave black Baptist women greater authority — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 389; White and black Baptist women’s missionary work created cross-racial sisterhoods — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 430; Black church women were central to the church’s public role as racial self-help — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 37 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women held a double consciousness of simultaneous separateness and alliance #qualifies (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 390