Negro source book.
An extensive scrapbook kept between the 1920s and 1930s of American Black Catholics, centered around Chicago. Throughout the album are a vast amount of news and magazine articles spanning over 20 years related to Negro Catholics during these decades discussing topics such as converts, race relations...
| Format: | Manuscript |
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | An extensive scrapbook kept between the 1920s and 1930s of American Black Catholics, centered around Chicago. Throughout the album are a vast amount of news and magazine articles spanning over 20 years related to Negro Catholics during these decades discussing topics such as converts, race relations, and developing new parishes for African-American communities. There are also articles about newly ordained African-American priests, an account of a record being set for "colored converts" in Chicago, as well as expressions of outrage against lynching and the need for an anti-lynching bill. A few pages deal with the burning of a historical Chicago church, St. Elizabeth's, which had become the "mother black church" by 1924. The headlines read "Negroes kneel in street as church burns" and although the cause was never discovered many of the articles speculate that racism was the reason. The fire of 1930 amounted to $500,000 in damages. One article entitled, "Negroes' Questions Are Embarrassing," discusses the theory that as followers of Christ "Jim Crow" laws are hypocritical to "his teachings" of "loving ones neighbor." This sentiment is repeated throughout the album in articles such as "Catholics and the Race Problem," and "Race Hatred: Is It Necessary?" There are also clippings of notable African-Americans including Jesse Owens, George Washington Carver, and Marian Anderson, as well as an article discussing First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt honoring Marian Anderson after her famous performance in 1939. Interspersed throughout are a few original black and white photographs of Catholic school classes from Corpus Christi and an 8" x 10" photo of a mass being performed. |
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| Item Description: | Title hand-lettered on front board. The Cushing Library/Area Studies/Africana copy contains a bookseller's description. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 28 x 39 cm |