Black Baptists pursued education as group empowerment, not just personal advancement

Evidence

Despite the value of education to individual advancement, its larger, more lasting service was perceived in terms of collective empowerment. Education, especially higher education, was considered essential to the progress of African Americans as a group. It is no wonder, then, that the black church’s social and political influence expanded with both the rise in black literacy and the rise of a leadership class that came increasingly to embody college-trained men and women. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 118

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black Baptist colleges blended classical, moral, religious, and industrial training — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1226; 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; Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 388 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women’s conventions financed black educational institutions #exemplifies (0.90) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 308
• Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising #exemplifies (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 316
• Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 388
• Black Baptist uplift ideology paired trained women with ministers as racial saviors #expands (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 126
• Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance #complicates (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 331