Desegregation of the New Orleans Parochial Schools Manning,
Diane T., Rogers, Perry, The Journal of Negro Education The
desegregation of the largest group of nonpublic schools, the
parochial schools of the Roman Catholic Church, has received
scant scholarly attention, partly due to a paucity of primary
source material that could illuminate the private motivations of
church leaders who were required neither to integrate their
schools nor to share their thoughts. This paper examines the
Church's struggle to reconcile its moral imperative to
desegregate with temporal pressures to resist, as documented in
the archives of the Catholic Council of Human Relations in New
Orleans, home of the largest number of African American
Catholics in the United States. Much has been written about the
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Desegregation of the New Orleans Parochial Schools.
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