America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns - Shannen Dee Williams

Full title: "America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States"
A lecture presented by Professor Shannen Dee Williams (University of Dayton) on April 27, 2023, at the University of Chicago.
This event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, and cosponsored by St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Chicago, America Media, the Center for Gender Studies, the Center for Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, the History Department at the University of Chicago, the Thea Bowman Foundation, and the Catholic Theological Union.
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For most people, Whoopi Goldberg's performance as Sister Mary Clarence in Sister Act is the dominant interpretation of an African American nun and the desegregation of white Catholic sisterhood in the United States. In this presentation, Dr. Shannen Dee Williams will explore the story of America's real sister act: the story of how generations of Black women and girls called to the sacred vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience fought against racism, sexism, and exclusion to become and minister as consecrated women of God in the Roman Catholic Church.
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