White and black Baptist women’s missionary work created cross-racial sisterhoods

Evidence

As such, “woman’s work for woman” served to connect women who would otherwise have never met at all, much less forged a sisterhood that traversed regional, class, and racial boundaries. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 430

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reading white missionary efforts only as racist paternalism erases Black leaders’ agency — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 436; White Baptist missionary women supplied model homes to train Black domestics — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1655; Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 331 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women held a double consciousness of simultaneous separateness and alliance #qualifies (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 390
• Black Baptist women actively promoted racial separatism and self-reliance #complicates (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 331
• White Baptist missionary women supplied model homes to train Black domestics #qualifies (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1655
• Rising racial solidarity among black Baptists ran parallel to rising gender consciousness among women #expands (0.74) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 709