| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945–1970. By Andrew S. Moore. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiv, 210 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3212-8.)

Andrew S. Moore has written a slim, yet significant work on Catholicism in two Deep South states during the quarter century after World War II. From 1945 until the advent of the civil rights movement, Catholics in Alabama and Georgia made up less than 5 percent of the population; indeed, they were "a group apart" and regarded as such by most of the American South (p. 38). Using both primary material from Catholic archives and recent historiography, Moore pictures Catholics in the postwar era as a beleaguered minority, yet the church was not shy in defending its religious space or maintaining its American identity. Moore points out that large Catholic parades and religious celebrations solidified religious loyalties and demonstrated the church's presence in an overwhelmingly Protestant region.

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