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| In this live-streamed via Zoom lecture, Dr. Leah Mickens will present on her award-winning book, In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II (NYU Press, 2022). The talk will discuss the history of Our Lady of Lourdes, a historically Black parish in Atlanta, Georgia, that is located diagonally across the street from the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where Martin Luther King, Jr. co-pastored with his father. Using Our Lady of Lourdes as a case study, Dr. Mickens will discuss such topics as Catholic-Protestant relations in the Jim Crow South, how the Southern church approached racism, parochial school desegregation, the role of liturgical renewal in Black parishes after the Second Vatican Council. |