Research Guides: Black Catholic History: Digital and Archival Collections

Digital Collections

Slavery, History, Memory and Reconciliation
Jesuit project committed to a transformative process of truth-telling, reconciliation, and healing that, in conversation with the descendants of people held in bondage, acknowledges historical harms, seeks to repair relationships, and works within our communities to address the legacies of slavery that persist in the form of racial inequities today.
National Office for Black Catholics
Archives documents not only the experience of being black and Catholic in the United States, but also the Catholic Church’s response to the civil rights struggles of the 20th century.
African American Catholics of the United States
Marquette University special collection

The Cyprian Davis Papers
Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. Davis was an accomplished scholar. He authored and co-authored several monographs, including 'Christ's Image in Black: the Black Catholic Community Before the Civil War' and 'The History of Black Catholics in the United States.' Davis’s papers include many unpublished manuscripts on Black history and Black Catholic history.