Northern Baptist women’s magazines reached thirteen to fifteen thousand subscribers monthly by 1900

Evidence

The greatest source of publicity on southern black life came through the Home Mission Echo and Tidings, monthly magazines published by the New England and the Midwest women’s societies, respectively. For tens of thousands of women in small northern towns and rural communities, the magazines generated an abundance of facts and correspondence and served as the chief medium of communication connecting women of the various organizational branches with one another, the national leadership, and southern black communities. Tidings enjoyed a circulation of 11,000 issues monthly in 1892, rising to 13,000 by 1900. Equally impressive was Home Mission Echo, which had grown from a subscription list of 2,700 in 1885, its first year of issuance, to 15,500 by 1899. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 494

Categorization

• SHARE: This is the kind of niche print-culture circulation stat a media-history friend would appreciate.
• XREF: connects to: Black Baptist women built community through a network of denomination-owned newspapers — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 371; Black Baptist newspapers ran routine domestic columns aimed at women readers — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 372

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist newspapers ran routine domestic columns aimed at women readers #expands (0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 372
• Black Baptist women built community through a network of denomination-owned newspapers #expands (0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 371