Black church women were central to the church’s public role as racial self-help

Evidence

This book is a study of women in the black church between 1880 and 1920—a period that has come to be known simultaneously as the “woman’s era” and the “nadir” in American race relations. I argue that women were crucial to broadening the public arm of the church and making it the most powerful institution of racial self-help in the African American community. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 37

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Segregation and violence pushed the black church toward collective self-help — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 241; Black church women equated respectable public behavior with group advancement — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 93; Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 331 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Ordinary poor black women practiced quotidian self-sacrifice to fund their church societies #exemplifies (0.90) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 312
• Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance #expands (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 331
• Black Baptist women prized institutions owned and staffed by their own race #exemplifies (0.86) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 308
• Black church women equated respectable public behavior with group advancement #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 93
• Segregation and violence pushed the black church toward collective self-help #expands (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 241
• Black women’s separatist organizing added gender consciousness to racial self-help #qualifies (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 338
• Black Baptist women leaders bridged church and secular reform networks #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 829
• Elite Black women’s self-help efforts reproduced racist views of poor Black women #complicates (0.76) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 727