Poor unlettered black women sustained the training school through small grassroots gifts

Evidence

Year after year black women, many without education themselves, regularly contributed small amounts of money enclosed in barely literate letters of support. By giving “pantry parties,” collecting redeemable soap wrappers, and continually devising imaginative money-making ventures, black church women across the nation worked for the furtherance of their school. Ella Whitfield zealously canvassed the nation in her job as field secretary of the Woman’s Convention and solicited funds for the school at every opportunity. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 999

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Local black women’s clubs rapidly multiplied and raised growing sums for education. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 421; Poor Black women donated to white missions at real financial sacrifice — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 451; Poor black women’s small donations financially sustained their national institutions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 746 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Ordinary poor black women practiced quotidian self-sacrifice to fund their church societies #exemplifies (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 312
• Black Baptist women made education the race’s central hope through moral suasion and fund-raising #corroborates (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 316
• Black Baptist women’s conventions financed black educational institutions #corroborates (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 308
• Black women without formal theory provided practical blueprints for liberation #expands (0.78) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 20
• Unlettered Black women practiced liberation without formal feminist theory #expands (0.75)