Male leaders exploited internal women’s disputes as proof they could not self-govern

Evidence

The Reverend I. W. D. Isaac, editor of the National Baptist Union, divided the women further by his negative public coverage of the controversy. His goal was to place the women under the control of the male-dominated National Baptist Convention by revealing them to be too internally divided for self-government. Although WC president S. Willie Layten sided with Broughton, the convention’s executive board and membership rallied around Burroughs. By August 1903 Burroughs, Broughton, Layten, and the convention in general put the controversy behind them and, with a call for “higher ground,” conveyed an impressive show of solidarity in the black Baptist press. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 754

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Male ministers opposed women’s societies chiefly over money and authority — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 341; Male denominational leaders tried to subordinate autonomous black women’s organizations — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 738; Male supremacy functions as a political strategy maintaining gendered power relations — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 928 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Male supremacy functions as a political strategy maintaining gendered power relations #expands (0.85) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 928
• Male denominational leaders tried to subordinate autonomous black women’s organizations #corroborates (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 738
• A male leaders’ network unified around gendered authority above doctrinal differences. #corroborates (0.78) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 463
• Women’s emancipation increased male hostility rather than reducing it. #corroborates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 298