Black Catholicism or African-American Catholicism comprises the African-American people, beliefs, and practices in the Catholic Church.
Portrait of the attendees at the 1892 Colored Catholic Congress. Front and center is Fr Augustus Tolton, the nation's first openly-Black Catholic priest.
St. Anthony's Mission House, a racially integrated minor seminary founded by Fr Ignatius Lissner of the Society of African Missions in 1921. Originally located in Highwood, Bergen County, New Jersey.
The black church is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members. The term "black church" may also refer to individual congregations, including in traditionally white-led denominations.
Bethel AME Church in Palatka, Florida.
African American Baptist Church, Silver Hill Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina
"Wade in the water." A postcard of a river baptism in New Bern, North Carolina, around 1900.
Outside of a black church in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935.