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Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956

Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956

Anderson, R. Bentley

Hardcover

AnthropologyCatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0826514839
ISBN13: 9780826514837
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Oct 17 2005
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.54 Depth: 9.58
Language: English
Most histories of the Civil Rights Movement start with all the players in place--among them organized groups of African Americans, White Citizens' Councils, nervous politicians, and religious leaders struggling to find the right course. Anderson, however, takes up the historical moment right before that, when small groups of black and white Catholics in the city of New Orleans began efforts to desegregate the archdiocese, and the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) began, in fits and starts, to integrate quietly the New Orleans Province.

Anderson leads readers through the tumultuous years just after World War II when the Roman Catholic Church in the American South struggled to reconcile its commitment to social justice with the legal and social heritage of Jim Crow society. Though these early efforts at reform, by and large, failed, they did serve to galvanize Catholic supporters and opponents of the Civil Rights Movement and provided a model for more successful efforts at desegregation in the '60s.

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