Northern Baptist colleges created the educated black women who led the convention movement.

Evidence

The growth in church women’s visibility and influence throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century was directly related to the growth in the number of educated women. To a significant extent, the convention movement among black Baptists was sparked by the educational philosophy of the colleges that were founded in the postbellum South by white northern Protestants. The schools owned and supported by northern Baptists advocated the development of an educated elite. College-educated black women, a group | call the Female Talented Tenth, disseminated middle-class morals and values among the masses and, at the same time, generated financial support for the black church and its educational and numerous social service programs. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 119

Categorization

• DEFINE: Coins ‘Female Talented Tenth’ as the female analogue of Du Bois’s concept.
• XREF: Extends Du Bois’s Talented Tenth; the gendered extension is the novel analytic move. — connects to: A national women’s constituency let ex-slaves’ daughters achieve recognition otherwise denied them — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 779; Northern liberal seminaries supplied the intellectual milieu for black women’s feminist theology. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 633; Historically Black colleges were founded to train servants and docile cheap labor. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 838 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Northern liberal seminaries supplied the intellectual milieu for black women’s feminist theology. #complicates (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 633
• Historically Black colleges were founded to train servants and docile cheap labor. #qualifies (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 838