Black-controlled colleges depended on poor congregants’ pennies rather than white purse strings.

Evidence

Black Baptist women’s societies generated funds at the local level. In some cases, women’s fund raising served as the catalyst for securing matching funds from northern white Baptists. The examples of Kentucky and Alabama reveal the importance of women’s societies to the support of black Baptist-owned colleges. Unlike the schools founded by the ABHMS, the black-controlled schools depended, in the final analysis, upon the support of their own people. For the most part, money was solicited from people who were largely without land or capital. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 297

Categorization

• SEED: The stark asymmetry — self-funded black schools built from nickels of the landless while white-run schools had institutional backing — could anchor an article on self-reliance as both pride and imposed burden.
• XREF: connects to: Black congregations funded white-run colleges yet still lost control over where support went — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 291

Broader Connections

• Black congregations funded white-run colleges yet still lost control over where support went #complicates (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 291