Black civil rights leaders saw domestic training as inseparable from race advancement.

Evidence

During the 1890s the idea of training women for parenthood was not perceived as contradictory to the emphasis on black higher education or equal rights. Such training was espoused by two uncompromising civil rights advocates, W. E. B. Du Bois and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. “Home uplift” was deemed essential to “race uplift” and was addressed in newspapers, novels, and other forms of popular literature. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 474

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Educated black elites were trained as a mediating restraint against mass violence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 154; Domestic training and civil rights activism were seen as compatible in the 1890s. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 474