Contents
Foreword: Cardinal Wilton Gregory
Introduction: David J. Endres
Contributor Biographies
Speaking the Truth: The Black Catholic Intellectual Vocation | Bryan N. Massingale
Black History and Culture | Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A.
Black Catholics in the United States: A Historical Chronology, 1452–2020 | Ronald LaMarr Sharps
Outsiders Within: The Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1830s Church and Society | Diane Batts Morrow
We’ve Come This Far by Faith: Black Catholics and Their Church | Diana L. Hayes
Called to Be Leaven: Reflections on African American Catholic Spirituality | Cyprian Davis, O.S.B.
“Gonna Move When the Spirit Say Move”: A Black Spirituality of Resistance and Resilience | C. Vanessa White
Thank God We Ain’t What We Was: The State of the Liturgy in the Black Catholic Community | Clarence Joseph Rivers
The African American Catholic Hymnal and the African American Spiritual | M. Shawn Copeland
Sister Thea Bowman: Liturgical Justice through Black Sacred Song | Kim R. Harris
Writing Black Catholic Lives: Black Catholic Biographies and Autobiographies | Cecilia A. Moore
Freeing the Spirit: Very Personal Reflections on One Man’s Search for the Spirit in Worship | Clarence Joseph Rivers
Black Catholic Scholarship, 1854–2020 | Ronald LaMarr Sharps
Index