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Desegregating Dixie : the Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945-1992
Title
Desegregating Dixie : the Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945-1992 / Mark Newman.
ISBN
9781496818867
1496818865
9781496818966
1496818962
9781496818874
1496818873
9781496818881
1496818881
9781496818904
1496818903
9781496818898
149681889X
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018.
Physical Description
xviii, 455 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to segregation by confining Africans Americans to the back of white churches and to black-only schools and churches. However, in the twentieth century, papal adoption and dissemination of the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ, pressure from some black and white Catholics, and secular change brought by the civil rights movement increasingly led the Church to address racial discrimination both inside and outside its walls. Far from monolithic, white Catholics in the South split between a moderate segregationist majority and minorities of hard-line segregationists and progressive racial egalitarians. While some bishops felt no discomfort with segregation, prelates appointed from the late 1940s onward tended to be more supportive of religious and secular change. Some bishops in the peripheral South began desegregation before or in anticipation of secular change while elsewhere, especially in the Deep South, they often tied changes in the Catholic churches to secular desegregation. African American Catholics were diverse and more active in the civil rights movement than has often been assumed. While some black Catholics challenged racism in the Church, many were conflicted about the manner of Catholic desegregation generally imposed by closing valued black institutions. Tracing its impact through the early 1990s, Newman reveals how desegregation shook congregations but seldom brought about genuine integration."--Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Newman, Mark (Historian). Desegregating dixie. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the Catholic Church and African Americans in the South and nation to 1944
Chapter one. An overview: Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1945-1970
Chapter two. The sociology of religion and Catholic desegregation in the South
Chapter three. Catholic segregationist thought in the South
Chapter four. Progressive white Catholics in the South and civil rights
Chapter five. White Catholics in the South and secular desegregation, 1954-1970
Chapter six. Desegregation of southern Catholic institutions, 1945-1970
Chapter seven. African American Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1945-1970
Chapter eight., Southern Catholics and desegregation in denominational perspective, 1945-1971
Chapter nine. An overview: Catholics in the South and desegregation, 1971-1992
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Catholic Archdioceses and Dioceses in the South, 1945-1992
Appendix 2. Ordinaries of Catholic Dioceses in the South, 1945-1992
Appendix 3. Major Catholic Diocesan newspapers in the South, 1945-1992
Appendix 4. The Catholic population in the South, 1945-1980
Appendix 5. The African American Catholic population in the South, 1945-1975 .
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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