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(RNS) It rained today in Texas.
The sudden downpour caught me unaware. But even as it drenched my shoes, I couldn’t help smiling. Three days ago, seminary president Al Mohler compared the growing threat of women preachers in the Southern Baptist Convention to a coming rainstorm. “At first, there is only a small cloud,” he wrote. “Soon thereafter, here comes the downpour. Well, here it comes.”
As I watched the water stream around my feet, overflowing dips in the sidewalk and flooding the flower beds, I thought about Mohler’s words. He’s partly right. In terms of the SBC stance on women preaching, a downpour is coming just not from the direction Mohler thinks.
2/28/2021
Denied a Teaching Job for Being ‘Too Black,’ She Started Her Own School And a Movement Historians in the News
The problem was not her credentials. Nannie Helen Burroughs had graduated with honors from the prestigious M Street High School in the nation’s capital. Nor did being African American disqualify her; the administrators were hiring people of color to teach in the city’s segregated schools.
Still, Burroughs’s job application to a D.C. public school was rejected in
the 1890s, likely because of the prejudice of colorism a preference for lighter-skinned staff. Put simply, historians say, the Black people doing the hiring believed her to be “too Black.”
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Denied a teaching job for being ‘too Black,’ she started her own school and a movement Jess McHugh A portrait of Nannie Helen Burroughs, born in 1879. (Library of Congress) The problem was not her credentials. Nannie Helen Burroughs had graduated with honors from the prestigious M Street High School in the nation’s capital. Nor did being African American disqualify her; the administrators were hiring people of color to teach in the city’s segregated schools. Still, Burroughs’s job application to a D.C. public school was rejected in the 1890s, likely because of the prejudice of colorism a preference for lighter-skinned staff. Put simply, historians say, the Black people doing the hiring believed her to be “too Black.”