Black Baptist women outnumbered black Baptist men in the national convention

Evidence

In 1916 the National Baptist Convention reported a membership of 1,805,001 women and 1,128,237 men-leaving 5,341 of 2,938,579 who did not report their sex. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1480

Categorization

• XREF: Quantifies the female majority that underlay the Woman’s Convention’s organizational leverage described in earlier chapters. — connects to: Only one percent of black working women ever reached professional middle-class status — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 210