This year marks 50 years since Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877-1978), a leading figure in the advancement of Black Catholics, received his honorary doctorate from The Catholic University of America. In 1894, Turner was offered a scholarship to Lincoln University. However, to receive this scholarship, he would have had to convert to Episcopalian. After some deliberation, Read More

Hannah Kaufman is a Graduate Library Pre-Professional (GLP) at The Catholic University of America, who also works in Special Collections. Since starting my position as the new archives GLP, I have been working on the finding aid for the USCCB/NCCB Secretariat for Cultural Diversity. Having never created a complicated finding aid before, I took one Read More