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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Main Author: Neary, Timothy B. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Edition:Paperback edition
Series/Journal:Historical studies of urban America
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Chicago / Catholic youth / Race relations / History 1914-1954
Further subjects:B Parishes History 20th century Illinois Chicago
B Race Relations
B African Americans
B Race Relations Religious aspects
B Parishes
B African American youth
B Chicago (Ill.) Race relations History 20th century Illinois Chicago
B African Americans History 20th century Illinois Chicago
B Sheil, Bernard J. 1888-1969 Sheil, Bernard J. 1888-1969
B Social Action
B Social Action History 20th century Illinois Chicago
B Catholic Youth
B Catholic Youth Organization History Catholic Youth Organization 1900-1999
B African American youth Illinois Chicago
B Catholic Youth Illinois Chicago
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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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index
ISBN:022656598X