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For faith and fortune : the education of Catholic immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925 / JoEllen McNergney Vinyard.

By: Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney
Material type: TextTextSeries: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series: Publisher: Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xviii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 025206707X (pbk. : acidfree paper); 0252024052 (cloth : acid-free paper)Subject(s): 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 centuryDDC classification: 371.829 LOC classification: LC503.D48 | V56 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-289) and index.
Contents:
On common ground -- The school question of the 1850s -- Charting the course : the Irish, the Germans, and their teachers -- Promoting the cause : prelates, Polish immigrants, and the public schools -- Polish parish schools : the first generation -- Parish grade schools multiply -- Higher ambitions : secondary schools -- The measure of success : challenges to parochial education in the 1920s.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-289) and index.

On common ground -- The school question of the 1850s -- Charting the course : the Irish, the Germans, and their teachers -- Promoting the cause : prelates, Polish immigrants, and the public schools -- Polish parish schools : the first generation -- Parish grade schools multiply -- Higher ambitions : secondary schools -- The measure of success : challenges to parochial education in the 1920s.

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