For faith and fortune
Subtitle: the education of Catholic immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925
By: JoEllen McNergney Vinyard.
Series: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Education -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 19th century.; Catholic Church -- Education -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.; Children of immigrants -- Education -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 19th century.; Children of immigrants -- Education -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: On common ground; title: The "school question" of the 1850s; title: Charting the course : the Irish, the Germans, and their teachers; title: Promoting the cause : prelates, Polish immigrants, and the public schools; title: Polish parish schools : the first generation; title: Parish grade schools multiply; title: Higher ambitions : secondary schools; title: The measure of success : challenges to parochial education in the 1920s.