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In 1879, Bishop John J. Keane began holding services for Black Catholics in the basement of St. Peter, Richmond, then the diocesan cathedral. Only 14 years previously, slavery had come to an end in the South, and African Americans still faced legal discrimination in the form of Jim Crow laws. In 1885, the community that met at St. Peter had grown strong enough to support its own parish. Bishop Keane subsequently established a Catholic parish for…
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