The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968
The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968

Author: Kathryn M. Galchutt

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780865549463

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Andrew Schulze was a white pastor of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod who spent his early ministry serving black mission churches in Springfield, Illinois (1924-1928); St. Louis, Missouri (1928-1947); and Chicago, Illinois (1947-1954). He was an early proponent of integration during these years, fighting continual battles to get black students admitted to Lutheran schools. In the 1930s, he began to lobby to end the mission status of black churches and black schools, a goal which was finally realized in 1947. In 1941 he wrote a treatise on race relations in the church,

Streetcar Parishes
Streetcar Parishes

Author: Robert Zecker

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

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This book examines how small immigrant groups created a community for themselves if they could never control their own piece of the city, an ethnic ghetto, in which all or nearly all residents shared the same Old Country home. For many immigrants, community was not geographically circumscribed. Creative means existed for drawing widely dispersed people back into an institutionally based community centered on churches, social clubs, fraternal societies, and sporting leagues.