Poor Black women donated to white missions at real financial sacrifice

Evidence

Black women in Memphis made a quilt “handsomely worked throughout with various designs and fancy stitches” and sent it to the northern white women as a donation to missions. At the annual meeting of black women in Tennessee, black missionary Virginia Broughton noted the resolution of her sisters to send forty dollars to the WBHMS. The contributions of black women led WBHMS leader Mary Burdette to acknowledge that such donations represented “more self-denial than double, quadruple and even ten times the amount in many [white] women’s missionary societies which we can name.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 451

Categorization

• CANDY: A white mission leader conceding that Black women’s small donations cost them more self-denial than far larger white donations is a striking, shareable glimpse of relative sacrifice.
• XREF: connects to: Ordinary poor black women practiced quotidian self-sacrifice to fund their church societies — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 312; Poor black women’s small donations financially sustained their national institutions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 746; Poor unlettered black women sustained the training school through small grassroots gifts — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 999

Broader Connections

• Ordinary poor black women practiced quotidian self-sacrifice to fund their church societies #exemplifies (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 312
• Poor unlettered black women sustained the training school through small grassroots gifts #exemplifies (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 999
• Poor black women’s small donations financially sustained their national institutions #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 746