Sister Agnes Marie, manager of Delille Inn, shares her story about being one of the first African-American undergraduates to attend Loyola University.
For Sr. Agnes Marie, it was “enemy territory.” Though with the passage of time, perhaps, both thought, it was not the place of enemies but simply those with a different mindset. Sr. Agnes Marie remembered the words of her grandmother on that first day: “Don’t worry. God will always protect you. And I felt protected by her and [the] remembrance of her.”