Black Baptists were the largest black institution countering American racial exclusion.

Evidence

Black Baptists constituted the most numerically significant attempt to counter the debilitating intent and effects of American racial exclusivism, and thus their story broadly characterizes the black church and black community. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 57

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White Baptist exclusion over slavery drove black Baptists to form their own national convention — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 44; The 1895 National Baptist Convention marked the peak of race-conscious institutional organizing. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 56; Denied inclusion within white institutions deepened black Baptist separatism — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 247 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• For excluded African Americans, the church became the chief arena of black public life #corroborates (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 71
• The National Baptist Convention asserted autonomous control of black racial life #exemplifies (0.86) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 327
• Denied inclusion within white institutions deepened black Baptist separatism #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 247
• Black churches served as the organizing infrastructure for political resistance #expands (0.82) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1031
• Black Baptists formed a racially bounded imagined community claiming sovereign autonomy from white control #qualifies (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1076