Respectable Baptist women’s journalism openly protested white supremacist violence.

Evidence

White faces seem to think it their heaven-born right to practice civil war on negroes [sic], to the extent of blood-shed and death. They look upon the life of their brother in black as a bubble to be blown away at their pleasure. The same spirit that existed in the South twenty-four years ago, is still recognized in its posterity. The negro is still clothed in swarthy skin, and he is still robbed of his rights as a citizen, made dear and fairly won to him by the death of those who fell in the late Rebellion. This outrage cannot endure. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 385

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s coining interest: shows that ‘politics of respectability’ coexisted with militant protest rhetoric — internal respectability and external denunciation were simultaneous. — connects to: Black Baptist women wielded respectability as a weapon against biological racism — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 882; White Baptist missionary women broke from genteel silence to condemn lynching — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 521; Mississippi Baptist clergy publicly defended racial segregation in explicitly white supremacist terms — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 122

Broader Connections

• White Baptist missionary women broke from genteel silence to condemn lynching #qualifies (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 521
• Black Baptist women wielded respectability as a weapon against biological racism #corroborates (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 882
• Mississippi Baptist clergy publicly defended racial segregation in explicitly white supremacist terms #complicates (0.78) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 122