There’s a trend among some young Catholic women who, after struggling to find a decent, marriageable man, pray a novena prayer to Saint Joseph for a husband. It’s hard not to wonder if someone had prayed for another Saint Joseph sometime before April 1937, when conservative civil rights leader Robert L. Woodson Sr. was born. That would begin to explain Woodson’s role in American culture.
Woodson did, in fact, write a book about a biblical Joseph — the one of technicolor dreams, in the first half of Scripture. “Today, in communities throughout the nation, hundreds of ‘modern-day Josephs’ are at work, restoring spiritual health in their neighborhoods, guiding others to lives of value and fulfillment,” Woodson wrote in The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today’s Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods, published in 2007. Woodson added:
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