The Black women’s Baptist convention took bolder political stands than Booker T. Washington did.

Evidence

The issue of voting rights further distinguished the politics of the Woman’s Convention from Booker T: Washington’s. At the very time when Booker T. Washington’s influential voice failed to venture public criticism against black disfranchisement in the South, the Woman’s Convention called for a united leadership that would “neither compromise nor sell out.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1026

Categorization

• XREF: Directly marks the genre-limiting contradiction within the respectability politics thesis: black Baptist women advanced protest politics and public confrontation, not just self-policing decorum. This complicates or extends the book’s own central coining. — connects to: External terror plus Black elite defeatism paved the way for Booker T. Washington’s leadership — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 972
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did respectability politics coexist or conflict with the openly confrontational, anti-Washington suffrage militancy documented here? The passage could force a revision of the stereotyped reading of the coined term.

Broader Connections

• External terror plus Black elite defeatism paved the way for Booker T. Washington’s leadership #qualifies (0.76) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 972