Good hearts
Subtitle: Catholic sisters in Chicago's past
By: Suellen Hoy.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780252030574; 9780252073014
Subjects: Nuns -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Church history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Catholic sisters in Chicago's past; title: The journey out : from Ireland to America; title: Walking nuns : Chicago's Irish Sisters of Mercy; title: Caring for abandoned women and girls : the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1859-1911; title: The Good Shepherds and the Illinois Technical School for  Colored Girls, 1911-53; title: Missionary sisters in black belt neighborhoods; title: No color line at Loretto Academy; title: Marching for racial justice in Chicago in the 1960s.