Local black women’s clubs rapidly multiplied and raised growing sums for education.

Evidence

In another letter to the New England women, Cook boasted of the black women’s endeavors: “They organized at their several homes what is known as the ‘Home University Society,’ holding all offices and managing all business. There were seventeen societies represented the first year, with money to the amount of 715;—the second year twenty-six societies and 1000.10, and this year thirty-nine societies and $1,207.70.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 421

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black women’s clubs organized around a propertied middle class — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2167; Black congregations financed their own women’s higher education institutions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 128; Rising black middle-class incomes fostered women’s pursuit of idealized femininity — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 514 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 316
• Black women’s clubs organized around a propertied middle class #qualifies (0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2167
• Rising black middle-class incomes fostered women’s pursuit of idealized femininity #expands (0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 514
• Black congregations financed their own women’s higher education institutions #expands (0.74) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 128
• Poor unlettered black women sustained the training school through small grassroots gifts #qualifies (0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 999