The Negro in Queen of the Angels Parish, Newark, N.J.: A Study of the Development of the Religious and Social Services Extended to the Negro by a Catholic Parish, 1930-1964
Abstract
John F. Kennedy, our late President, expressed these thoughts in a television address to the Nation on June 1, 1963. This was his civil rights message, and the moral issue of which he spoke was that of justice and equality for the Negro. He asked the support of all American citizens on a two-fold basis, that of our Judaeo-Christian heritage and our citizenship. This study will show how a Catholic parish has attempted to afford to our colored fellow Americans the "equal rights and equal opportunities” which it was in a position to make available. Figure 1 on page 2 depicts the President discussing a civil rights issue with a Negro politician. It had been one hundred years since Negroes had stopped their struggle for freedom, and started one for equal rights and integration. The early part of this century saw Negro protest which was half-hidden, but the revolution began rising in crescendo during the 1950’s. Sporadic incidents such as Negro children seeking entrance into white Southern schools as in Little Rock, Freedom Riders demanding equal treatment at bus terminals, sit-in demonstrators asking for service at lunch counters, and Negro marchers in Birmingham. The tempo increased in the “summer of our discontent, ” 1963, when demonstrations erupted all over the United States, North and South, culminating in the march on Washington of August 28, 1963. “By train and bus and plane and even roller skates, and from all parts of the country, the Negroes and their white supporters came...the throngs were orderly and the voices of their speakers temperate. And white Americas began to realize that this was a full-fledged social revolution. It knew that these men, women and children were seeking their birthright, full equality. Last year, 1964, the Civil Rights Law was passed and the Negro presses on toward victory.
Subject Area
Political science|African American Studies
Recommended Citation
Margaret, Patricia, "The Negro in Queen of the Angels Parish, Newark, N.J.: A Study of the Development of the Religious and Social Services Extended to the Negro by a Catholic Parish, 1930-1964" (1965). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30308735.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30308735
