White missionary schools accommodated southern segregation to court white support

Evidence

Attempting to balance the egalitarian aspects of their work with the reality of southern racism, the schools of the ABHMS learned to coexist with segregation and endeavored to win support from the white South’s “better classes.” … In a memorandum to the heads of the Home Mission schools, Henry Morehouse counseled that the schools should attempt to compromise with white and black Southerners by neither offending the prejudices of the whites, nor insulting the pride of the blacks. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 254

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Northern whites expressed abundant support for segregation — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 979; Black Baptist agitation forced limited structural concessions from white-dominated mission schools — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 255; White churches historically functioned as agents upholding racist social structures — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1055 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• White churches historically functioned as agents upholding racist social structures #expands (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1055
• Northern whites expressed abundant support for segregation #corroborates (0.78) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 979
• Christian theology and institutions served as the central support for American white supremacy #expands (0.77) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 32
• Freed Black southerners organized their own schooling rather than defer to White missionaries #complicates (0.76) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 634
• Mississippi Baptist clergy publicly defended racial segregation in explicitly white supremacist terms #corroborates (0.76) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 122
• Northern and Southern Methodists shared white supremacy despite splitting over slavery #corroborates (0.75) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 33
• Black Baptist agitation forced limited structural concessions from white-dominated mission schools #complicates (0.74) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 255
• School vouchers originated as subsidies for segregated white religious academies #exemplifies (0.73) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 752
• Early contact studies showed northern students acquiring racist attitudes at segregated southern schools #exemplifies (0.71) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1659