Black Catholic periodicals

...must drop prejudice at the threshold and go hand in hand to the altar."[1] American Catholic Tribune, February 25, 1887 PAHRC has a fairly significant, though incomplete, run of the American Catholic Tribune from 1887 to 1894. According to WorldCat, only several libraries worldwide have this newspaper. The Research Center

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Education

...ools caused concern that public schools would be completely replaced. “The American River Ganges. The priests and the children,” December, 30, 1871 One of Nast’s most famous cartoons, “The American River Ganges,” depicts bishops shaped as crocodiles coming to devour children as a public school lays in ruins. Nast believed

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Misericordia Hospital

...ened, the Sisters of Mercy set up a training program for nurses. The first class of 21 students started in May of 1918 and graduated on May 21, 1921.[13] By 1968 almost 2,000 nurses were trained at Misericordia.[14] Misericordia Hospital: One-Half Century of Service, 1918-1968, (1968), 17. In 1967 plans

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Josephine Walsh (center) on her way to Europe, July 1900

A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries

...ing – because I have had the expense of paper, ink and time!" Walsh on the business of writing. 1906 diary, page 1. Walsh on the business of writing. 1906 diary, page 2. Josie wanted to be a writer, but this was a tough dream for a woman in the

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