Photographs fall between pages 36 and 37 Foreword by Sister Felicity Cunningham, OP Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The First Black Sisters in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond Chapter 2: The Catholic Church and Race Relations in South Africa Prior to the Second World War Chapter 3: The Apostolic Delegate and the Dominican Sisters Chapter 4: The First Black Sisters in the Oakford Congregation (1922-38) Chapter 5: The First Black Sisters in the Newcastle Congregation (1927-38) Chapter 6: The Transfer of the Black Sisters from Lennoxton to Montebello Conclusion Dramatis Personae Glossary of Catholic Ecclesiastical Terms Appendix 1: Archbishop Jordaan Bernhard Gijlswijk, Confidential Report to Cardinal Willem van Rossum, Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, Bloemfontein, 28 May 1924 Appendix 2: Letter from Archbishop Jordaan Gijlswijk to Sisters Gabriel Possenti, Siena and Andreas, 30 May 1927 Appendix 3: Constitutions for the Congregation of Native Sisters, Tertiaries of the Order of Saint Dominic founded by Mother Rose Niland, Foundress and Superior General of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Siena of Newcastle, Natal [1934] Appendix 4: Old Annals (1925-37) Appendix 5: [Mother Euphemia Ruf], History of the Natal Congregation of the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, Montebello [c.1955] Appendix 6: [Sister Hyacinth Gilheany], Lennoxton from 1932 Onwards [c.1963] Bibliography Index.