Reviews for Black and Catholic in the Jim Crow South: The Stuff That Makes Community

The average rating for Black and Catholic in the Jim Crow South: The Stuff That Makes Community based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-20 00:00:00 Edwin Cooper This book was fantastic and I could not put it down. Regardless of your religious, political, or racial perspective I think there is something to be learned from Black And Catholic in the Jim Crow South. They rendition of how Catholics were treated in the south regardless of color reminds me of the story of the south that ended with "Well your husband's Jewish..." "No, he's Catholic" "I knew it was something weird" returnreturnThe book has some historical references form the author, but its mostly full of short stories from folks from a town in Mississippi. Not the stories you here at the Knights of Columbus, but the ones from your Grandpa, that you can't wait to hear next time you see him, and you miss when he's gone. returnreturnThe author groups the stories together in chapters to make the readable by subject, but it really appears to be the folks own words, some who where there when the Church refused to fall to pressure to keep blacks out, to integrating their schools far before the government counterparts. But not all is rosy for Christ's Church, as we have our bigots too. returnreturnWhen Holy Family ( a primary black catholic church in Natchez) becomes the head of the NAACP, and one of its priests the chairperson, it can only be by the grace of God that it is not bombed. I didn't realize how much blacks, and whites who happen to have been associated with them, really had to fear for their life from extremists, particularly once the protection of government was removed and the market saw that separate but equal was simply not profitable. Crazy people don't like the market. returnreturnPlease do yourself and your family a favor and read this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-30 00:00:00 Mike Johnston This gave me an insight into the violence that was part of Black America's life in Mississippi as well as the courage of many of the civil rights proponents. It covers much of the twentieth century.