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DO YOU REMEMBER
1943?
It was the year Our Lady of Victory Church was founded in a storefront in the midst of a developing West Eight Mile Community still reeling from the effects of the worst race riot in Detroit’s history.
Meet the woman who started it all, Anna Bates, a Black woman from the Island of Montserrat who was just about the only Catholic in the area. Get to know the first pastor, Fr. Alvin Deem, a missionary priest who stayed three years and then was suddenly removed. Get an understanding of why there are so few black priests and black Catholics in this region today.
Let the author take you on an amazing journey of historic firsts:
- First Archdiocesan priest in Black Church history was assigned.
- First and only school in the diocese that has a Kindergarten class.
- First and only Federal Credit Union operated by the parishioners.
- First black nuns, The Oblate Sisters of Providence, staff the school.
Our Lady of Victory, the Saga of an African-American Catholic Community takes you on a fascinating journey down memory lane with the early pioneers.
Get to know the Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver. Learn about the cement wall that was built to separate blacks from white residents and how it almost impeded the development of the area. Learn about a Catholic Community about to take root and how Church policies failed this ambitious initiative.
This is the story of Our Lady of Victory.
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