Black, White, and Catholic: Southern Jesuits confront the race question, 1952

Catholic Historical Review

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 484-505

  Anderson, R Bentley ^a  

^a Saint Louis University

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EID: 60949581329     PISSN: 00088080     EISSN: 15340708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cat.2005.0184     Document Type: Review

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3. James B. Bennett, Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans (Princeton, 2005).
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6. Donald Dorr, Option for the Poor: One Hundred Years of Vatican Social Teaching (Maryknoll, New York, 1983).
7. Janssens, De Apostolatu Sociali, pp. 3-4.
8. Minutes of the "Meeting on the Social Apostolate," January 18, 1950, ANOSJ.
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12. Robert Bentley Anderson, "Norman Francis is a Negro: Race, Religion and Catholic Higher Education in New Orleans, 1947-1956" (Ph.D. dissertation, Boston College, 2001).
13. William Crandell to Jesuit Community, Loyola University, March 2, 1951, ANOSJ.
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16. "Minutes of the Province Meeting on Interracial Relations, August 28-29, 1952," ANOSJ [hereafter referred to as MPIR].
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