Social Justice From Outside the Walls - Catholic Women in Memphis, 19501970

This book examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movement in the civil rights era in Memphis, Tennessee. The intertwined experiences of six Catholic women activists demonstrate that the commonalities of gender and faith provided a foundation from which many others built the interracial justice movement.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Little Way: Catholic Foundations for Social Justice
Chapter 2: "The Colored Harvest": Black and Catholic
Chapter 3: The Outer Circle: Catholic Workers and Catholic Action
Chapter 4: Opening Just One Door: Social Justice, Race, and Reaction
Chapter 5: Catholic Action: Putting Vatican II into Practice
Chapter 6: White Gloved Radicals: Expanding the Mission
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Ann Youngblood Mulhearn is lecturer of American history at Middle Tennessee State University.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Youngblood Mulhearn
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666922288
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-228-8
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Memphis, Tennessee, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Women, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1950 to c 1959, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, c 1960 to c 1969, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, C 1945 To C 1960, Social discrimination and social justice