Sacred Stories: Digitizing Sisters of the Holy Family Archives

FAIN: PW-304394-25

Morgan State University (Baltimore, MD 21251-0001)
Gretchen Rudham (Project Director: July 2024 to present)

Arranging, describing, and digitizing 220 linear feet of collections from the Sisters of the Holy Family, the second oldest Black sisterhood in the nation, founded in 1842. 

Morgan State University is honored to partner with Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans, and to be entrusted with the important work of preservation and digitization of the organizational history of the 2nd oldest Black Sisterhood in the nation. This collaborative project will create an open-source digital site to share artifacts and contextualized stories of the Sisters. Their Sisterhood offers both sacred and secular blueprints for longevity of religious and political leadership, lessons of survivance through manmade and natural disasters, fugitive acts of educational leadership, unbreakable bonds of Sisterhood, and service to the Black community for almost two hundred years in America.