AUTHOR TO RECOUNT HISTORY OF BLACK CATHOLIC NUNS IN THE U.S.
Dr. Shannon Dee Williams will present America’s Real Sister Act: Black Catholic Nuns in United States History at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 19. Part of the 2025 Speaker Series at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School (OLSH), the program will be held in the school’s auditorium in Coraopolis, Pa. Dr. Williams’ presentation will survey the long and rich history of Black Catholic nuns in our nation.
An associate professor of history at the University of Dayton, Dr. Williams is the author of Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle and the winner of the 2022 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians and the 2023 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
The program is free and open to the public. Seats can be reserved at www.olsh.org/speakerseries.
