Black Baptist women escalated from demanding equal separate accommodations to rejecting segregation outright.

Evidence

The black Baptist women never accepted the legitimacy of segregation or its doctrine of “separate but equal.” Their attack on Jim Crow laws exemplified the malleable and dialogic quality of this doctrine, when articulated as a discourse of resistance. The black Baptist women’s early protest attempted to hold white America accountable for “equal,” though separate, accommodations. Their later protest, however, openly acknowledged the doctrine as a euphemism and demanded the dismantlement of segregation altogether. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1008

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth pinning down when and under what pressures the movement shifted from insisting on ‘equal’ in ‘separate but equal’ to rejecting separation as a euphemism.
• XREF: connects to: Black Baptist women read middle-class propriety as a demand for full inclusion, not submission. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 457; Black women’s groups demanded equal segregated facilities before demanding desegregation — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1010; Black activists moved from demanding equal segregation to demanding its abolition — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1012

Broader Connections

• Black women’s groups demanded equal segregated facilities before demanding desegregation #corroborates (0.95) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1010