Historical Documents
Letter to Bishop Walter F. Sullivan from Sowers of Justice Racial Unity Working Group
Books
Fogarty, Gerald P., S.J. 2001. Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia. Chapters 26 and 27 include information about Bishop Russell closing the Black parishes, and how integration disrupted these Black parishes.
Hill, Carol Hogle. 2018. The Black Catholic Church and Catholicism in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. A book about Saint Margaret Mary Church in Charlottesville, a mission church of Holy Comforter
Johnson, Nessa Theresa Baskerville. 1978. A Special Pilgrimage A History of Black Catholics in Richmond. The book focuses on the founding of St. Josephs in Richmond.
Pyle, Molly. 2020. A History of the Diocese of Richmond: The Formative Years.
Timeline of the Black Catholic Experience in Virginia BOOKLET 2022
Articles
Billings, Cora Marie. Saved by Grace: Striving for a more racially just and equal church America, June 24, 2014.
McCabe, Robert. The life we’ve been living’: Historic Black Catholic Church in Norfolk, Virginia, looks to the future | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org) National Catholic Reporter, July 3, 2020.
Williams, Charles. My black Catholic church was closed in the name of integration | America Magazine. America Magazine: The Jesuit Review, February 7, 2020.
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Virginia Catholics for Racial Justice 