Northern Catholic parishes enforced rigid racial segregation even in New York.
Evidence
In his 1970 book Black Priest, White Church: Catholics and Racism, Father Lawrence Lucas, a black Catholic priest, reported his experiences growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in New York’s Central Harlem. As the neighborhood’s racial composition shifted, whites remained assigned to their nearest parish church, but the Catholic hierarchy segregated all African Americans into St. Mark’s Parish, regardless of where they lived. … Reflecting back on his experience of these racist practices, Lucas noted dryly, “This wasn’t the bad, bad South; it was the good, good North.” — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 35
Categorization
- SHARE: The bullwhip-wielding priest detail is vivid enough to share with someone into church history or race and religion.
- XREF: connects to: Northern whites expressed abundant support for segregation — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 979; Italian bus service in Somalia enforced racial segregation even for professional Somalis. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 162; White racism in the North matched southern white supremacy in ferocity. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 259 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Northern whites expressed abundant support for segregation
#exemplifies(0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 979 - White racism in the North matched southern white supremacy in ferocity.
#corroborates(0.82) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 259 - Italian bus service in Somalia enforced racial segregation even for professional Somalis.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 162