ABSTRACT
traces the rapid expansion of the politico-spiritual approach initiated by Mother Anderson. This chapter focuses particularly on the activities of Mother Catherine Seal, one of Mother Anderson’s mentees and the founder of the House of Innocent Blood (also known as the Manger). The Manger served as a shelter for abandoned babies, orphaned children, pregnant women and girls, and other persons suffering from infectious diseases. Additionally, Mother Catherine used the Manger to advance a mode of interracialism meant to challenge oppressive structures of racism, sexism, and ageism. Overall, the chapter highlights how the Manger became a home for socially ostracized persons and a place of empowerment for those who were deemed powerless during the late 1920s and 1930s in Jim Crow New Orleans.
