[The] African American Catholics are now an integral part of the diocese of Richmond, but this was not always the case. While they were always affected by events in the diocese at large, their story is different … focus [ing] on urban schools as the means of evangelizing Virginia’s Blacks, so few of whom were Catholic … gradually, especially after World War II, Virginia Catholics would move toward integration.
– Commonwealth Catholicism — a History of the Catholic Church in Virginia, Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J.
