Research Catalog

Title

Desegregating Dixie : the Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945-1992 / Mark Newman.

Author

Newman, Mark (Historian)

Publication

• ©2018
• Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2018.

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Details

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.

Alternative Title

Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945-1992

Subjects

• Catholics
• Southern States
• Southern States > History > 20th century
• Catholic Church
• Catholics > Southern States > History > 20th century
• Catholic Church Southern States > History > 20th century
• African Americans > Segregation > United States > Religious aspects
• United States
• History
• 1900-1999

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

Sc E 19-370

ISBN

• 9781496818867
• 1496818865
• 9781496818966
• 1496818962

LCCN

2018011383

OCLC

1031045686

Author

Newman, Mark (Historian), author.

Title

Desegregating Dixie : the Catholic Church in the South and desegregation, 1945-1992 / Mark Newman.

Copyright Date

©2018

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-370