The Albert Sidney Foley papers. 1952.

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The Albert Sidney Foley papers. 1952.

Contains a copy of Foley's 1950 University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Ph. D. dissertation, "The Catholic Church and the Washington Negro". An analysis of the problem of segregation, it examines the structure and functions of the Catholic Church in respect to both the African American minority within the Church and the larger African American community of Washington, DC. Publication was prevented in 1950 by the Archbishop of Washington, Patrick O'Boyle, at the request of a faction of DC clergy unhappy with its contents.

.25 linear ft.

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Catholic University of America

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