Male Baptist leaders dismantled the women’s auxiliary almost as soon as it formed.

Evidence

Virginia Broughton recorded in her autobiography that when the NBC met the following year in St. Louis, “by the Counsel of the brethren, the woman’s auxiliary national convention was disbanded and women were placed on the various boards of the NBC.” Broughton failed to explain the men’s reluctance or the women’s reaction; she simply stated that women continued to attend the annual meetings of the NBC and reinforce one another. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 715

Categorization

• XREF: The pattern of men dissolving women’s parallel organizations after conceding surface participation recurs across the respectability literature and later women’s auxiliary histories. — connects to: Black Baptist women faced pulpit and voice denial even among supportive male leaders — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 340; Black Baptist women’s national organizing faced sustained male resistance from churchmen. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 691; Some powerful male Baptist leaders chose to endorse rather than fight women’s organizational autonomy. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 740 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women’s national organizing faced sustained male resistance from churchmen. #exemplifies (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 691
• Even pro-woman male leaders opposed women forming separate spheres of denominational power #expands (0.86) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 707
• Some powerful male Baptist leaders chose to endorse rather than fight women’s organizational autonomy. #contradicts (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 740
• Black Baptist women faced pulpit and voice denial even among supportive male leaders #exemplifies (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 340
• Black Baptist women’s separatism stemmed from gender conflict with men as much as racism. #expands (0.74) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 338