Righteous Discontent The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920

Name: Righteous Discontent The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920
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ISBN: 9780674769786

ISBN-10: 0674769783

ISBN-13: 9780674769786

Edition: 1993

Authors: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

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What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her…

Book details

List price: $34.50
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Black Church: A Gender Perspective



The Female Talented Tenth



Separatist Leanings



Unlikely Sisterhood



Feminist Theology, 1880-1900



The Coming of Age of The Black Baptist Sisterhood



The Politics of Respectability


Notes


Index