Thanks to Bishop Braxton for this great article on the museum --I'm inspired to visit it!  I'm wondering why he doesn't mention St. Katharine Drexel in paragraph 15.  She founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891 and opened many schools in the South specifically for the African-American population because they weren't accepted in the public schools.    Their schools peppered the east coast cities of New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Atlanta, Boston, and more, as well as the Midwest -- Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus. The Sisters also established Xavier University in New Orleans, a very prominent institution of the city, which is still in existence. St. Katharine Drexel was canonized in 2000 and her feast day is celebrated March 3.