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Making Good the Claim (Hardcover)
Rufus Burrow; Foreword by Barry L Callen; Afterword by Gary B Agee
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In May of 1890, The Christian Solider, an African American
newspaper, identified the Catholic journalist and activist Daniel
Arthur Rudd as the "greatest negro Catholic in America." Yet many
Catholics today are unaware of Rudd's efforts to bring about
positive social change during the early decades of the Jim Crow
era. In Daniel Rudd: Calling a Church to Justice, Gary Agee offers
a compelling look at the life and work of this visionary who found
inspiration in his Catholic faith to fight for the principles of
liberty and justice. Born into slavery, Rudd achieved success early
on as the publisher of the American Catholic Tribune, one of the
most successful black newspapers of its era, and as the founder of
the National Black Catholic Congress. Even as Rudd urged his fellow
black Catholics to maintain their spiritual home within the fold of
the Catholic Church, he called on that same church to live up what
he believed to be her cardinal teaching, "the Fatherhood of God and
Brotherhood of Man." Rudd's hopeful spirit lives on today in the
important work of the National Black Catholic Congress, as it
carries forward his pursuit of social justice.
Daniel A. Rudd, born a slave in Bardstown, Kentucky, grew up to
achieve much in the years following the Civil War. His Catholic
faith, passion for activism, and talent for writing led him to
increasingly influential positions in many places. One of his
important early accomplishments was the publication of the American
Catholic Tribune, which Rudd referred to as ""the only Catholic
journal owned and published by colored men."" At its zenith, the
Tribune, run out of Detroit and Cincinnati, where Rudd lived, had
ten thousand subscribers, making it one of the most successful
black newspapers in the country. Rudd was also active in the
leadership of the Afro-American Press Association, and he was a
founding member of the Catholic Press Association. By 1889, Rudd
was one of the nation's best-known black Catholics. His work was
endorsed by a number of high-ranking church officials in Europe as
well as in the United States, and he was one of the founders of the
Lay Catholic Congress movement. Later, his travels took him to
Bolivar County, Mississippi, and eventually on to Forrest City,
Arkansas, where he worked for the well-known black farmer and
businessperson, Scott Bond, and eventually co-wrote Bond's
biography.
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