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Crossing parish boundaries : race, sports, and Catholic youth in Chicago, 1914-1954 /

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 nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neary, Timothy B., 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Colección:Historical studies of urban America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.