Boston Catholics and the Schools: An Urban History

FAIN: FA-11498-76

James W. Sanders
CUNY Research Foundation, College of Staten Island (Staten Island, NY 10314-6609)

To support the second state of a long range historical investigation of urban American Catholicism, particularly its relation to education. Grantee will focus on the city least committed to a separate Catholic school system, Boston, Earlier study dealt with Chicago, the city;' probably most committed to a separate Catholic school system. The investigation, while focusing on the development of Catholic educational institutions, will strive to place these in the broader context of urban social history related to immigration, ethnic and cultural pluralism, social and residential mobility, city politics, and the development of public education.