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- Collection: St. Peter Claver Church & School, Macon
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St. Peter Claver Parish and School in Macon
SPCPSM, ca. 1940-50s
Oral History Confessional
Bettye Middlebrook, left, and Carol Cummings, right.
Mother Katherine Drexel
Mother Katherine Drexel, 1964
Interviewees of St. Peter Claver
Left to right: Alice Marcella Bailey, Gwendolyn Stroud Booker, Monroe Abram, and Carol Cummings.
St. Peter Claver exterior
Outside of parish including its historical marker
St. Peter Claver, 1888 to Present
The parish was founded by the Jesuit Order in 1888 to serve African American Catholics. The church building moved to its permanent location at 131 Ward Street in 1913. The school was founded in 1903 by St. Katharine Drexel to educate black and Indian…