St. Thomas More student’s drawings of ‘Sacred Six’ Black Catholics line her school’s hallway
The young scholars attending St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Washington, D.C., know that their principal, Gerald D. Smith Jr., has high hopes for them.
“We always talk about our two goals – college and heaven,” he said.
Hanging at the top of the walls there along the school’s hallways are clotheslines strung with college pennants, including from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Notre Dame, the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan.
And now just below those pennants, there is a visible reminder of that second goal for students, heaven, in the form of framed portraits drawn by eighth grader Cameron Anthony of the “Sacred Six,” the six African American Catholics being considered for sainthood.