Story of Black Nuns Revealed in ‘Subversive Habits’
March 2, 2016
March is Women’s History Month Catholic Sisters subject of upcoming book by Dr. Shannen Williams The role of African American Catholic Sisters is rarely cited in books on Black History, but Dr. Shannen D. Williams is about to change that with her forthcoming book, “Subversive Habits –Black Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America After World War I.” Williams, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, is meticulously unearthing the long-buried background of scores of Black women in religious orders. During a recent presentation at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, she revealed the discrimination,