Black self-help alone could not fund the massive costs of black education.

Evidence

But the perspective of this “unlikely sisterhood” admits that self-help was not singularly capable, as it is not today capable, of combating tremendous inequality. This was and is particularly relevant to the massive costs of black education. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 423

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to debates about the limits of self-help ideology versus structural inequality — parallels modern ‘pull yourself up by bootstraps’ critiques. — connects to: No course of black conduct could have secured post-emancipation economic freedom — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 246

Broader Connections

• No course of black conduct could have secured post-emancipation economic freedom #corroborates (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 246