On the evening of Sunday, May 10, 1891, Father Augustus Tolton, the nation’s first self-identified Black priest, traveled to a home in Chicago’s “Negro...
Shannen Dee Williams is an associate professor of history at the University of Dayton and author of the award-winning Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle published (Duke University Press). In 2020, Williams established the Mother Mary Lange Lecture in Black Catholic History at Villanova University.
On the evening of Sunday, May 10, 1891, Father Augustus Tolton, the nation’s first self-identified Black priest, traveled to a home in Chicago’s “Negro...