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Crossing parish boundaries : race, sports, and Catholic youth in Chicago, 1914-1954 / Timothy B. Neary.
Van Pelt Library F548.9.N4 N43 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neary, Timothy B., 1970- author.
- Series:
- Historical studies of urban America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Youth Organization--History.
- Catholic Youth Organization.
- Sheil, Bernard J. (Bernard James), 1888-1969.
- Sheil, Bernard J.
- African American youth--Illinois--Chicago.
- African American youth.
- Catholic youth--Illinois--Chicago.
- Catholic youth.
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Social action--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Social action.
- Parishes.
- History.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Parishes--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Race relations--Religious aspects.
- Race relations.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 293 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Minority within a Minority: African Americans Encounter Catholicism in the Urban North 16
- 2 "We Had Standing": Black and Catholic in Bronzeville 39
- 3 For God and Country: Bishop Sheil and the CYO 71
- 4 African American Participation in the CYO 99
- 5 The Fight Outside the Ring: Antiracism in the CYO 135
- 6 "Ahead of His Time": The Legacy of Bishop Sheil and the Unfulfilled Promise of Catholic Interracialism 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226388762
- 022638876X
- OCLC:
- 934939002
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