Tag: African-American Catholics
Black Catholic History Month: No Catholic MLKs?
There is an enduring myth that African-American Catholics were largely absent from the freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, which resulted in the...
Choosing Catholicism and celebrating Black Catholic History Month
From the 1920s through the 1960s more than 300,000 African-Americans across the country chose to enter into communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Their...