Catholic parochial schools grew rapidly from 1880 to 1920, fueling Protestant tensions

Evidence

As their numbers grew, Catholics created their own community organizations with a focus on establishing Catholic schools. Bishops required every parish to have a Catholic grammar school, resulting in increased attendance, from approximately 400,000 children in 1880 to 1.7 million in 1920. The nationwide system of Catholic schools exacerbated tensions with Protestants, especially as the schools sought public funding. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 298

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-Catholic panic surged across the South and Midwest by 1920 — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1760; Catholic parochial-funding demands triggered Protestant backlash that tightened church-state separation — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 171