Dominican Sisters Encounter Jim Crow: The Desegregation of a Catholic Hospital in Mississippi
The civil rights movement in the United States elicited a variety of responses from communities of women religious. The Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, founders, in 1946, of St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi, resolved to work within the framework of legal separa...
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| Language: | English |
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American Catholic Historical Society
2005
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American catholic studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 116, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-58 |
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| Summary: | The civil rights movement in the United States elicited a variety of responses from communities of women religious. The Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, founders, in 1946, of St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi, resolved to work within the framework of legal separation of the races to improve the treatment of black patients. Although part of the dominant white system, the sisters simultaneously resisted racist practices in significant ways. The increasing momentum of the movement inspired the Dominicans to further desegregate the hospital before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and to use the force of the new law to complete the desegregation of the institution. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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