Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift

Evidence

Some women leaders even portrayed their role as ultimately more decisive than men’s. Virginia Broughton contended that women held the key to the material and spiritual progress of the entire race. She maintained that women’s efforts had already caused a considerable change in the domestic and public lives of blacks: “Now that the secret has been discovered by which our people may be reached and properly taught to live lives of purity by consecrated Christian women teaching in their homes, schools, and churches, we can all hope to see in the next twenty-five years, marked improvement among the colored people.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 388

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the gendered-respectability internal framing that the politics of respectability thesis consolidates. — connects to: Black Baptist uplift ideology paired trained women with ministers as racial saviors — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 126; Black Baptist women fused a rhetoric of war with one of domesticity — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 670; Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 316 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist uplift ideology paired trained women with ministers as racial saviors #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 126
• Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 316
• Black Baptist women fused a rhetoric of war with one of domesticity #qualifies (0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 670