The Woman’s Convention saw NAACP membership as mandatory anti-lynching solidarity

Evidence

In 1919, the report of the executive board enjoined every black American to stand behind the NAACP in its fight against lynch law: “Let 15,000,000 Negroes line up with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Any man who is not a member of that organization stands with the mob. There is no middle ground.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1016

Categorization

• XREF: The no-middle-ground framing of anti-lynching solidarity parallels how respectability politics treated decorum as zero-sum — connects to the book’s broader binary of respectable versus disreputable. — connects to: Forming the Woman’s Convention promised black women visible proof of their organizational capability. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 767; The Woman’s Convention ran a full settlement house in Washington slums — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 818

Broader Connections

• Forming the Woman’s Convention promised black women visible proof of their organizational capability. #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 767
• The Woman’s Convention ran a full settlement house in Washington slums #expands (0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 818