Betty Livingston Adams
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814745465
- eISBN:
- 9781479880324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814745465.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines newly enfranchised black women’s public presence and Christian activism in the interwar years. No longer fighting a Southern problem, they focused their New Negro militancy on ...
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This chapter examines newly enfranchised black women’s public presence and Christian activism in the interwar years. No longer fighting a Southern problem, they focused their New Negro militancy on economic and social discrimination, health and housing, state and mob violence, and the abuse of black women. As white supremacy outpaced interracial dialogue, and the Great Depression increased segregated space in the New Jersey suburb’s schools and YMCA, black women tried to arouse the consciences of white women by calling for a united womanhood in support of the NAACP, Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, Anti-Lynching Crusade, and Church Women’s Committee Interracial Movement. Despite the Northern expansion of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan, the suppression of Southern black women’s votes, and increased racial violence, few white suburbanites considered these legitimate issues of religion, feminism, or maternalism or pressed for social justice across the color line.Less
This chapter examines newly enfranchised black women’s public presence and Christian activism in the interwar years. No longer fighting a Southern problem, they focused their New Negro militancy on economic and social discrimination, health and housing, state and mob violence, and the abuse of black women. As white supremacy outpaced interracial dialogue, and the Great Depression increased segregated space in the New Jersey suburb’s schools and YMCA, black women tried to arouse the consciences of white women by calling for a united womanhood in support of the NAACP, Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, Anti-Lynching Crusade, and Church Women’s Committee Interracial Movement. Despite the Northern expansion of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan, the suppression of Southern black women’s votes, and increased racial violence, few white suburbanites considered these legitimate issues of religion, feminism, or maternalism or pressed for social justice across the color line.
