Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

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

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

320 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

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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...

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