Citizen’s Council and Archbishop Rummel, Integration and Catholic Schools, 1956-1960

The Drown collection includes photostat copies of correspondences, addresses, and pastoral letters by Archbishop Rummel and other clergy primarily relating to the New Orleans Archdiocese’s intent to end segregation in parochial schools and fierce response by local opposition groups. Materials also include correspondence and newsletters from supporting local Catholic organization’s and articles from local and national newspapers on the debate. There are also numerous journals, pamphlets and studies from the period on general civil rights and race relations, circa 1942-1978.