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About

The Racial Equity Team devises plans and strategies to share with the Mount Olivet community and with our neighbors in Arlington and beyond.

Since the formation of this group, we have:

Researched Mount Olivet’s history to learn more about the church’s role in race relations and school desegregation efforts;
Created Gifts Celebrating Diversity, a list of Black-owned businesses and culturally diverse and anti-racist books, as a resource for Mount Olivet members interested in supporting anti-racism while shopping;
Sponsored a four-part Wednesday evening adult study: ”Who is My Neighbor: Conversations about Race,” which was attended by more than 30 people each evening;
Joined Arlington County as the first church partner in a program called Dialogues on Race and Equity (DRE).
Begun archiving resources, including historical information and devotional and learning resources that members of Mount Olivet can access and use

Weekly Resources

Every week our team gives you a curated list of books, articles, podcasts, and videos related to racial equity. These resources are sent out in the weekly eNews and can be found in the resource archive here.

Nancy Columbia Enutseak and dog in a portrait by the Gerhard sisters, taken at the St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904. The Enutseak family, Inuit from Labrador, spent the better part of two decades as living exhibits at a series of international expositions. Nancy herself was born at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, hence her middle name. Photo by the Gerhard Sisters, courtesy of the Library of Congress

this week's resource

August 23, 2026

Anthropology Days at 1904 World’s Fair and Olympics

The first modern Olympic Games to be held in the United States were the St. Louis games of 1904, coinciding with the World's Fair there. The World's Fair had its own athletic competition, "Anthropology Days," which were intended to demonstrate the superiority of White athletes compared to cultures represented at the World's Fair and have now become associated with both the World's Fair and Olympics.