Title: African American women and Christian activism
First published: 1997
Description: Between the Civil War and World War II, Catholic charities evolved from volunteer and local origins into a centralized and professionally trained workforce that played a prominent role in the development of American welfare.

Dorothy Brown and Elizabeth McKeown document the extraordinary efforts of Catholic volunteers to care for Catholic families and resist Protestant and state intrusions at the local level, and they show how these initiatives provided the foundation for the development of the largest private system of social provision in the United States.
Subjects: Church work with African Americans, History, Religious life, YWCA of the City of New York, Young women, Catholicism, Sozialarbeit, Charities, Catholic Church, Social conditions, Public welfare, Church history, Orphanages, Child Welfare, Katholische Kirche, Church work with the poor, Young women's christian associations, African american women, Church work with minorities, Women, religious life, African americans, new york (state), new york, African American young women
Places: New York, New York (State)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: BV1393.B58 W45 1997