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What does OSP stand for?

Oblate Sisters of Providence


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Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (University of Toronto)
Open Source Off the Shelf (computer software products)
Operations Short Of War
Oversize/Overweight (transportation)
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Obiit Sine Prole (Latin: died without issue)
Objectives & Strategies Plan
Occupational Surveillance Program
Ocean Surveillance Product
Ocean Survey Program
Ochotnicza Straz Pozarna (Polish: village firebrigade)
Off Street Parking
Offensive Stereotype Productions (website)
Office of Science Policy (US EPA, Office of R&D)
Office of Scientific Personnel
Office of Special Plans (ad hoc American intelligence agency)
Office of Sponsored Programs



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34) ignores not only the universality of Roman Catholicism but also the reality of the formation of the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore in 1829 and the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans in 1842--Roman Catholic sisterhoods whose members explicitly acknowledged their racial identities as people of color.
Staffed by religious orders like the Josephites, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, or the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, black families, both poor and middle class, were offered places of refuge from sometimes neglectful public schools, buoyed by a promise of discipline and moral instruction.
Chineworth, 84 and biracial, was rejected from two orders because of race, finally taking her vows with the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a black community.
Lee ended up joining the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the Catholic Church's first order of women religious of African ancestry.

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