National Black Sisters' Conference | |
Formation: | 1968 |
Abbreviation: | NBSC |
Founder: | Martin de Porres Grey |
Founding Location: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Headquarters: | Washington, D.C. |
Region: | United States |
Leader Title: | President |
Leader Name: | Addie Lorraine Walker |
Subsidiaries: | National Black Catholic Women's Gathering |
Affiliations: | Black Catholic Joint Conference |
Website: | https://www.nbsc68.org/ |
The National Black Sisters' Conference (NBSC) is an association of Black Catholic religious sisters and nuns based in the United States. It was founded in Pittsburgh in 1968 by then-Mercy Sister Martin de Porres Grey, following her exclusion from the inaugural meeting of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus earlier that same year.[1]
Grey led the conference until her departure from religious life in 1974.[2]
Each year at the Black Catholic Joint Conference of Black sisters, priests and brothers, seminarians, and deacons and their wives, the NBSC awards the Harriet Tubman Award to a Black sister who "through her ministry is an advocate for Black people".
Awardees have included:
1984 | Joel B. Clarke | |
1985 | Thea Bowman | |
1986 | Elizabeth Harris | |
1987 | Calista Robinson | |
1988 | Delores Harrall | |
1989 | Mary Antona Ebo | |
1990 | Louis Marie Bryan | |
1991 | Cora M. Billings | |
1992 | Roland Lagarde | |
1993 | Patricia Haley | |
1994 | Beatrice Jeffries | |
1995 | Loretta T. Richards | |
1996 | Lucy Williams | |
1997 | Patricia J. Chappell | |
1998 | Anita Baird | |
1999 | Jamie T. Phelps | |
2000 | Roberta Fulton | |
2001 | Eva Marie Martin | |
2002 | Jane Nesmith | |
2003 | Josita Colbert | |
2004 | Juanita Shealey | |
2005 | Barbara Spears | |
2006 | Magdala Marie Gilbert | |
2007 | Rosetta M. Brown | |
2008 | Donna Banfield | |
2009 | Maria G. Mannix | |
2010 | Mary Ann Henegan | |
2011 | Rosella Marie Holloman | |
2012 | Patricia Lucas | |
2013 | Gayle Lwanga Crumbley | |
2014 | Barbara Croom | |
2015 | Ronnie Grier | |
2016 | Patricia Rogers | |
2017 | Beulah Martin | |
2018 | Thelma Mitchell | |
2019 | Patricia Ralph | |
2020 | ||
2021 | ||
2022 | Addie Lorraine Walker |