Black women’s conventions embraced white-founded mothers’ training schools

Evidence

Moore advanced the idea of “mothers’ training schools” in 1883, and the idea gained wide support in all of the southern black women’s conventions. Moore’s training school in Little Rock, Arkansas, consisted of a house with a dining room, parlor, and classroom on the first floor, and bedrooms on the second floor. Eight black women lived at the house while attending her training program. The house/school functioned as a “model home” for instruction in literacy and in homemaking skills for motherhood and wifehood. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 468