Legion of Decency
...hicago. They were distributed as a means of encouraging children to take the Legion of Decency movie boycott pledge. ← Bil Keane Fundraisers →...
Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...ior, be made for the Black Catholics in the area. Katharine Drexel offered support by purchasing a building that would serve as a parish chapel. Four years later, the parish of St. Ignatius, originally a German ethnic parish, was converted to serve the needs of the ever-growing African-American population in
James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?
...friendly to my nomination. Indeed some of their leading men say, they will support no other Northern man. Page 1 Part of the second page reads: There is an element now actively at work which may defeat all calculations and many leading men of both parties are engaged in it.
A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
...a woman in the early twentieth century. It appears that her family did not support her ambition. Her brother James in particular had a very strict idea of a woman’s domestic responsibilities, and did not allow her to pursue anything else. "When I had kept house for about a year,