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Bibliography of Catholicism and African-Americans
These books are relevant to the history of black Catholics and the history of American Catholicism and race.
Surveys
C. Davis, The History of Black Catholics in the United States
Histories of black Catholics in specific cities
R.B. Anderson, Black, White, And Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956
D. Blatnica, 'At the Altar of Their God; African American Catholics in Cleveland, 1922-1961
L. Butler and J. Wilson, O Write My Name: African American Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington, 1634-1990
M. Caravaglios, Maria, The American Catholic Church and the Negro Problem in the XVIII-XIX
Centuries
D.D. Collum, Black And Catholic in the Jim Crow South: The Stuff That Makes Community
M.B. Deggs, No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
M. MacGregor, The Emergence of a Black Catholic Community: St. Augustine's in Washington
V.J. Meyer, This far by faith: The history of Black Catholics in Phoenix, Arizona, 1868-2003
Other topics
A.M. Detiege, Henriette DeLille, Free Woman of Color
A.S. Foley, God's men of color;: The colored Catholic priests of the United States, 1854-1954
C. Hemesath, From Slave to Priest: The Inspirational Story of Fr. Augustine Tolton
A. Jones, Pierre Toussaint: A Biography
E. McMahon, What Parish Are You From?: A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations
B. Misner, “Highly Respectable and Accomplished Ladies”: Catholic Women Religious in
America 1790-1850
T. Murphy, Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838
S. Ochs, Desegregating the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871-1960
D. Southern, John Lafarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism 1911-1963
K. Zanca (ed.), American Catholics and Slavery, 1789-1866