Southern white Baptist women shared funding while black women retained full control

Evidence

In 1902 the two groups devised a policy of cooperation, which entailed jointly contributing to the salary and expenses of two black women missionaries on the southern field. The field missionaries were under the sole charge of the Woman’s Convention. They engaged in house-to-house visitation, distributed tracts and other literature, held conferences, and organized affiliate societies of the WC. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 904

Categorization

• QUESTION: The funding-came-white, control-stayed-black split is a revealing microstructure of interracial cooperation worth probing further.
• XREF: connects to: Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 331; Separate female institutions gave black Baptist women greater authority — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 389; Black Baptist women prized institutions owned and staffed by their own race — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 308

Broader Connections

• Separate female institutions gave black Baptist women greater authority #corroborates (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 389
• Black Baptist women prized institutions owned and staffed by their own race #corroborates (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 308
• Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 331