Alexander Crummel, the rector of St. Luke's (African Episcopal church he founded in D.C.) delievered a speech with the title "The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Needs." It was published by the Woman's Home Missionary Society of his own church. After the speech had been published, Crummel donated the proceeds from the 500,000 copies that were sold to build homes for black women. Some important quotes of his to keep in mind as to why he did this: "since the day of the emancipation hardly any one [had] lifted up a voice [on behalf of the] sisters and daughters of my race... In her girlhood all the delicate tenderness of her sex has rudely been outraged... From her childhood she was the victim of the grossest passions."