Good hearts : Catholic sisters in Chicago's past / Suellen Hoy.

Author/Creator:

Hoy, Suellen M.

Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Format/Description:

Book
xiv, 242 p., [40] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Nuns -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Church history.

Contents:

Introduction : Catholic sisters in Chicago's past
The journey out : from Ireland to America
Walking nuns : Chicago's Irish Sisters of Mercy
Caring for abandoned women and girls : the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1859-1911
The Good Shepherds and the Illinois Technical School for Colored Girls, 1911-53
Missionary sisters in black belt neighborhoods
No color line at Loretto Academy
Marching for racial justice in Chicago in the 1960s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-216) and index.

ISBN:

0252030575 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252073010 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

61229676

Publisher Number:

9780252030574
9780252073014

Online:

Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005022121.html

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