Black Baptist women prized institutions owned and staffed by their own race

Evidence

The Kentucky women took pride in distinguishing their university from those of the white northern Baptists. The constant struggle to maintain financial solvency was offset, as Louisville teacher Elizabeth Seeley indicated, by knowing that State University was “owned and controlled by the black Baptists, having a black president and except for one white teacher, a black faculty.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 308

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the politics-of-respectability theme of asserting institutional self-control against white northern paternalism. — connects to: Baptist women raised thousands to build girls’ dormitories at denominational colleges — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 365; Black Baptist women built community through a network of denomination-owned newspapers — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 371; Separate female institutions gave black Baptist women greater authority — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 389 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 331
• Black Baptist women’s conventions financed black educational institutions #exemplifies (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 308