| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 293 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Historical studies of urban America |
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Historical studies of urban America.
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| Contents |
Introduction. "Building Men, Not Just Fighters" -- 1. Minority within a Minority: African Americans Encounter Catholicism in the Urban North -- 2. "We Had Standing": Black and Catholic in Bronzeville -- 3. For God and Country: Bishop Sheil and the CYO -- 4. African American Participation in the CYO -- 5. The Fight Outside the Ring: Antiracism in the CYO -- 6. "Ahead of His Time": The Legacy of Bishop Sheil and the Unfulfilled Promise of Catholic Interracialism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialism seemed stubbornly unattainable, and the national spotlight once again turned to the history of racial conflict in Catholic parishes. It's widely understood that midcentury, working class, white ethnic Catholics were among the most virulent racists, but, as Crossing Parish Boundaries shows, that's not the whole story. In this book, Timothy B. Neary reveals the history of Bishop Bernard Sheil's Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), which brought together thousands of young people of all races and religions from Chicago's racially segregated neighborhoods to take part in sports and educational programming. Tens of thousands of boys and girls participated in basketball, track and field, and, the most popular sport of all, boxing, which regularly filled Chicago Stadium with roaring crowds. The history of Bishop Sheil and the CYO shows a cosmopolitan version of American Catholicism, one that is usually overshadowed by accounts of white ethnic Catholics aggressively resisting the racial integration of their working-class neighborhoods. By telling the story of Catholic-sponsored interracial cooperation within Chicago, Crossing Parish Boundaries complicates our understanding of northern urban race relations in the mid-twentieth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-298) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (EBSCOhost, viewed February 24, 2022) |
| Subject |
Sheil, Bernard J. (Bernard James), 1888-1969.
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| SUBJECT |
Sheil, Bernard J. (Bernard James), 1888-1969 fast |
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Catholic Youth Organization -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Catholic Youth Organization fast |
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African American youth -- Illinois -- Chicago
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Catholic youth -- Illinois -- Chicago
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African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
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Social action -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
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Parishes -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
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Race relations -- Religious aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African American youth
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African Americans
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Catholic youth
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Parishes
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Race relations
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Race relations -- Religious aspects
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Social action
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Illinois -- Chicago
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016001675 |
| ISBN |
9780226388939 |
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022638893X |
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