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Blatnica, Dorothy Ann. "`In Those Days': African-American Catholics in Cleveland, 1922-1961," Case Western Reserve University, April 1992. Advisor: Janice L. Reiff (16, 1, 11)
This historical survey of the African-American Catholic community in Cleveland, Ohio, examines the question of how African-American Catholics understood and expressed their religious and cultural identity in the Church in the years prior to the Second Vatican Council. It relies on the oral histories of forty-five African-American Catholics, interviews with clergy and religious personnel, and previously unexamined archival and newspaper sources. The impact of the parish schools, the number of African-American conversions to Catholicism, and the lack of religious vocations constitute three significant dimensions through which the reality of the African-American Catholic experience is interpreted. This study concludes that Cleveland African-American Catholics created vibrant and lasting parish communities in the face of strong social forces and racial attitudes.
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