Black women college students provided most rural black schooling through summer teaching

Evidence

Spelman students in the higher normal courses devoted their summers to teaching throughout rural Georgia and other parts of the South. Between 150 and 200 Spelman women taught each year during their four-month summer vacation. Since the teachers averaged forty pupils per class, Spelman boasted that it “spread out her wings to brood over at least six thousand children” during the summer season.*? Often the schools established by the student teachers were the first in a particular location, and for many parts of Georgia these schools would be the only educational opportunity for blacks during the year. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 196

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 388; Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 316; Black Baptist women’s conventions financed black educational institutions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 308

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women’s conventions financed black educational institutions #expands (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 308
• Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising #expands (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 316
• Black Baptist women saw their domestic teaching role as decisive for racial uplift #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 388