Spelman, Georgia State researchers to archive Black women’s religious activism across US
Four black women leave St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Jackson, Miss. following integrated services, June 16, 1963. The rector, Rev. Christoph Keller Jr. stands in doorway at left. Blacks were turned away at two other downtown churches in the racially tense city. (AP Photo)
Scholars at Atlanta HBCU Spelman College and Georgia State University will use a $250,000 grant to archive Black women’s religious activism across America — going as far back as the Antebellum South.
Funds from the Henry Luce Foundation will go towards developing digital and physical archives that are easily accessible to the public.
Monique Moultrie, associate professor of religious studies at Georgia State, and Rosetta Ross, professor of religious studies at Spelman College, are co-principal investigators on the three-year project, which kicks off in January.
Both sat down on “All Things Considered,” to explain how the project started and why the bulk of the recognition for social activism among Black religious leaders has been focused on men.
Lily Oppenheimer contributed to this report.
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