Male denominational leaders tried to subordinate autonomous black women’s organizations
Evidence
Just one year after the WC’s founding, for instance, Elias Camp Morris, president of the National Baptist Convention, expressed his reservation concerning the desirability of the women’s autonomy and national influence. Morris suggested that the women abdicate their growing power to the men by operating as a board of the National Baptist Convention and centralizing their activities under the aegis of the larger male “parent body,” as the NBC referred to itself. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 738
Categorization
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Black Baptist women faced pulpit and voice denial even among supportive male leaders — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 340; The National Baptist Convention asserted autonomous control of black racial life — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 327; Black women leaders contested the equation of church authority with ordination — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 367 (+20 more)
Broader Connections
- Black male liberation leaders defined freedom as patriarchal domination over black women
#expands(0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 527 - Black male leaders treated gender equality as secondary to racial struggle
#complicates(0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 506 - Black women faced a double bind between racist white feminists and patriarchal black leaders
#expands(0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 28 - A male leaders’ network unified around gendered authority above doctrinal differences.
#expands(0.72) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 463 - 60s black liberation codified sexist role separation within the movement
#exemplifies(0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 30