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The National Black Sisters' Conference (NBSC) is an association of Black Catholic religious sisters and nuns based in the United States. It was founded in Pittsburgh in 1968 by then-Mercy Sister Martin de Porres Grey, following her exclusion from the inaugural meeting of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus earlier that same year.

Grey led the conference until her departure from religious life in 1974.

Harriet Tubman Award

Each year at the Black Catholic Joint Conference of Black sisters, priests and brothers, seminarians, and deacons and their wives, the NBSC awards the Harriet Tubman Award to a Black sister who "through her ministry is an advocate for Black people".

Awardees have included:

References

1. ^ "A sisters' community apologizes to one woman whose vocation was denied". Global Sisters Report. 2018-01-08. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
2. Copeland, M. Shawn (1996). "A Cadre of Women Religious Committed to Black Liberation: The National Black Sisters' Conference". U.S. Catholic Historian. 14 (1): 123–144. ISSN 0735-8318.

• Catholic organizations established in the 20th century
• African-American Roman Catholicism
• African-American Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns
• American Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns
• Christian organizations established in 1968
• 1968 establishments in Pennsylvania