Rivers was the Project Coordinator for this national workshop in music for Black Catholics. He said in the recorded concert album insert, "The workshop's goal was the development of a Black Catholic musical leadership and for the effect of the workshop to spread and for Black Catholics to cooperate even more closely under the auspices of the NOBC for their musical liberation." The faculty included Edwin R. Hawkins, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Rivers, McKinley Genwright and William Foster McDaniel.