Black And Catholic in the Jim Crow South: The Stuff That Makes Community

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Just over 40 years ago Mississippi used to be burning. A series of racially motivated murders and brutal repression of the movement to register black voters had drawn the moral outrage of the nation. But within the historic city of Natchez, in the course of that dreadful period, an African American Catholic parish and its white priest chose to stand on the center of the African American freedom movement. In keeping with the oral histories of Holy Circle of relatives Church in Natchez, Black And Catholic In The Jim Crow South tells the story of black Catholics’ 20th-century struggle throughout the voices of the individuals who lived through it. It tells of the origins of the Holy Circle of relatives Church from its founding as a spot of worship for black slaves or servants to the central role that the parish played within the civil rights movement, when it leaped the boundaries of its original mission to grow to be a center for struggle and hope. Danny Duncan Collum provides vivid interviews with members of Holy Circle of relatives parish who lived through this period of ferment, hope, and terror. He documents the courageous stand taken by both his parish and by the Catholic hierarchy against the supporters of segregation, ranging from the state government to the Klu Klux Klan.

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