"Black and Catholic in Omaha: A Case of Double Jeopardy" examines an area of American life that has gotten little attention--that of a black Catholic community in a predominantly white church and society.

Author Jack Angus has spent more than a decade participating in the life of this parish while conducting his research. The result is a reconstruction of the first fifty years of the difficult journey from mission to mainstream Catholic for St. Benedict the Moor Parish and its people.

The story is replete with examples of difficulties experienced not only with white people in general,...