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Since the early days of the Republic, Washington has nurtured an increasingly prosperous and articulate community of black Catholics. For much of that time the spiritual welfare of these citizens as well as their material aspirations centered on St. Augustine's parish. From the days of Civil War, through the decades when Jim Crow ruled Washington, to recent times and new challenges for the inner city, black Catholics from all over the area hav...

This engaging biography of Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle (1896-1987) tells his story from his origins in an Irish immigrant family through his important contribution to the development of the Catholic Charities, to the formation and growth of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.

Traces the history of the oldest Roman Catholic parish in Washington, D.C.

This engaging biography seeks to explain Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle's apparent contradictions by placing special emphasis on his formative years as the only child in an immigrant, staunchly pro-labor family in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and his training as a seminarian and curate in the rigidly traditional Church of his adopted New York.

CMH Pub 50-1-1. Defense Studies Series. Discusses the evolution of the services' racial policies and practices between World War II and 1965 during the period when black servicemen and women were integrated into the Nation's military units.

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: African American soldiers, United States, Political Science / Political Freedom