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Desegregating Dixie - The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 (Paperback)
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Desegregating Dixie - The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 (Paperback)
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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
African 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.
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