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The Federated Colored Catholics (FCC), originally the Committee against the Extension of Race Prejudice in the Church, then the Committee for the Advancement of Colored Catholics, was a Black Catholic organization founded in 1925 by Thomas Wyatt Turner.[1]
History
The FCC was originally founded as a small group advocating for Black uplift, and later expanded within the local area before becoming a federated group of chapters in various other cities.
Jesuit priests John LaFarge Jr. and William Markoe later became major backers of and leaders in the organization, eventually pushing the organization into a more interracial direction—against Turner's will. The group would eventually splinter, with LaFarge establishing the short-lived Catholic Interracial Council of New York, which spawned several other chapters.[2]
The FCC, itself a spiritual successor to Daniel Rudd's Colored Catholic Congress movement (1889-1904), would die off in 1952, eventually succeeded by other national Black Catholic organizations such as the National Black Catholic Congress.
References
- ^ The Federated Colored Catholics: Background Information Archived June 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine from the Catholic University of America
- ^ "Turner, Thomas Wyatt | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-11-25.