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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney
Language:English
Published: Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [1998], ©1998.
Series:Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series.
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.
Physical Description:xviii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.