Black church sabbath schools run by women taught literacy after Reconstruction

Evidence

Sabbath schools constituted another example of independent efforts to promote black literacy during and after the Reconstruction era. Products of the black church, these schools were usually run by women in the evenings and on weekends and provided instruction in both religion and reading. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 274

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: 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

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising #expands (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 316
• Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift #exemplifies (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 388