Poor black women’s small donations financially sustained their national institutions

Evidence

Women’s state and local missionary societies constituted the financial backbone of the national convention. Not a wealthy constituency, the Woman’s Convention depended upon the talents and resources of women with very little income. Yet the sacrificial and other fund-raising contributions of such women constituted the primary mainstay of individual churches, of local and state educational and charitable-relief projects, and of the projects of their national convention. The fund-raising activities of the Woman’s Convention united black women of all ages, classes, and geographic regions at new levels of collective self-help. These activities served to valorize the resourcefulness and skills of poor women. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 746

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Poor Black women donated to white missions at real financial sacrifice — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 451; Poor unlettered black women sustained the training school through small grassroots gifts — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 999; Black congregations financed their own women’s higher education institutions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 128 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Poor unlettered black women sustained the training school through small grassroots gifts #corroborates (0.96) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 999
• Black social reform rested on poor people’s pooled efforts, not wealthy philanthropy #corroborates (0.90) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 802
• Black Baptist women’s conventions financed black educational institutions #corroborates (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 308
• Black social Christianity rested on many small givers, not wealthy patrons #corroborates (0.88)
• Ordinary poor black women practiced quotidian self-sacrifice to fund their church societies #expands (0.86) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 312
• Black congregations financed their own women’s higher education institutions #expands (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 128
• Black institutions provide free spaces essential for building civic capacity #expands (0.73) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 347
• Elite Black women’s self-help efforts reproduced racist views of poor Black women #complicates (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 727