Black, Catholic, and Empowered: Black Women's Educational Ideologies in the Catholic Church in the Early 20th Century

• In Event: Historical Perspectives on Black Education: Ideology and Access

Abstract

This paper identifies Black women’s perspective in the early 20th century about education in the Black community through their writings in Black-centered publications. Specifically, the paper explores themes of self-help, self-determination, and identity in black women ’s writing in The Chronicle, the official publication of the Federated Colored Catholics, from 1929-1933. The Chronicle sought to transmit information to African Americans – Catholic and non-Catholic – by reporting social, economic, and legislative activities as they related to the Black community. Although Black Catholic women functioned within a marginalized religious group, the themes within their educational ideologies proved similar to those of Black women in the Black church

Authors

• Dellyssa Edinboro, The University of Iowa

• Katrina M. Sanders, University of Iowa