MPW on St. Joseph’s Catholic Church

Photo Credit: Bernard Fisher on the Historical Marker Database Michael Paul Williams chronicles the African American history of this now vanished church and parochial school. When a nun at Van de Vyver School threatened to wash out a pupil’s foul mouth with soap, she wasn’t being figurative. The soapy mixture she funneled into the pupil’s mouth […]

Photo Credit: Bernard Fisher on the Historical Marker Database Michael Paul Williams chronicles the African American history of this now vanished church and parochial school. When a nun at Van de Vyver School threatened to wash out a pupil’s foul mouth with soap, she wasn’t being figurative. The soapy mixture she funneled into the pupil’s mouth […]

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