Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954

by Timothy B. Neary

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022638876X
• ISBN13: 9780226388762
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"