Bibliography of Detroit History, Politics, and Culture Late-Nineteenth Century to the Present

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Compiled by Thomas A. Klug April 8, 2019

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Athans, Mary Christine. “A New Perspective on Father Charles E. Coughlin.” Church History 56, no. 2 (June 1987): 224–35. https://doi.org/10.2307/3165504. Besanceney, Paul H., S. J. “Interfaith Marriages of Catholics in the Detroit Area.” Sociology of Religion 26, no. 1 (Spring 1965): 38–44. https://doi.org/10.2307/3710631. ———. “Unbroken Protestant-Catholic Marriages among Whites in the Detroit Area.” The American Catholic Sociological Review 23, no. 1 (Spring 1962): 3–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/3708469. Beynon, Erdmann Doane. “The Voodoo Cult Among Negro Migrants in Detroit.” American Journal of Sociology 43, no. 6 (May 1938): 894–907. Bicknell, Catherine. “Detroit’s Capuchin Soup Kitchen.” Labor History 24, no. 1 (January 1983): 112–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00236568308584697. Bingham, June. “Reinhold Niebuhr in Detroit.” Christian Century 8 (1961): 296–98. Boyea, Earl. “Father Kolasiński and the Church of Detroit.” The Catholic Historical Review 74, no. 3 (July 1988): 420–39. ———. “The Reverend Charles Coughlin and the Church: The Gallagher Years, 1930-1937.” The Catholic Historical Review 81, no. 2 (April 1995): 211–25. https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.1995.0044. Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Brown, Charles C. Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Prophetic Role and Legacy. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002. Cannistraro, Philip V., and Theodore P. Kovaleff. “Father Coughlin and Mussolini: Impossible Allies.” Journal of Church and State 13, no. 3 (Autumn 1971): 427–43. Carnegie, William R. The Scotch Presbyterian Church of Detroit: Its History from 1842 to 1938. Detroit, MI: Central Presbyterian Church, 1938. Carpenter, Ronald H. Father Charles E. Coughlin: Surrogate Spokesman for the Disaffected. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Casey, Genevieve M. Father Clem Kern: Conscience of Detroit. Detroit, MI: Marygrove College, 1989. Casey, Michael, and Aimee Rowe. “‘Driving Out the Money Changers’: Radio Priest Charles E. Coughlin’s Rhetorical Vision.” Journal of Communication & Religion 19, no. 1 (March 1996): 37–47. Collum, Marla O., Barbara E. Krueger, and Dorothy Kostuch, eds. Detroit’s Historic Places of Worship. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2012. Coogan, Rev. John Edward, S.J. “Religion a Preventive of Delinquency.” Federal Probation 18 (1954): 29-. Cort, John C. “ACTU and the Auto Workers.” U.S. Catholic Historian 9, no. 4 (Fall 1990): 335– 51. Cremoni, Lucilla. “Antisemitism and Populism in the United States in the 1930s: The Case of Father Coughlin.” Patterns of Prejudice 32, no. 1 (January 1998): 25–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.1998.9970245. Cypkin, Diane. “A Rhetorical Critical Analysis of Father Coughlin’s Radio Broadcast, November 20, 1938 or Call It What You Will . . . . It’s Still Anti‐Semitism!” Journal of Radio Studies 4, no. 1 (January 1997): 134–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529709391688. Davis, Nancy M. “A Lutta Continua: Black Catholic Activism in Detroit, Michigan in the 1970s.” U.S. Catholic Historian 26, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 15–32. https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2008.0006. ———. “Finding Voice: Revisiting Race and American Catholicism in Detroit.” American Catholic Studies 114, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 39–58. Deslippe, Dennis A. “‘A Revolution of Its Own’ the Social Doctrine of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists in Detroit, 1939-50.” Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 102, no. 4 (Winter 1991): 19–36. Dillard, Angela D. Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007. ———. “Religion and Radicalism: The Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr., and the Rise of Black Christian Nationalism in Detroit.” In Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940–1980, edited by Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, 153–75. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Dochuk, Darren. “‘Praying for a Wicked City’: Congregation, Community, and the Suburbanization of Fundamentalism.” Religion and American Culture 13, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 167–203. https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2003.13.2.167. Doody, Colleen. Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. Fehr, Russell MacKenzie. “Political Protestantism: The Detroit Citizens League and the Rise of 2

the Ku Klux Klan.” Journal of Urban History, 2018, 0096144218793646. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218793646. Gellman, Erik S., and Jarod Roll. The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. Godzak, Roman P. “Archives of the Archdiocese of Detroit.” Michigan Historical Review 23, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 126–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/20173635. Gregory, James N. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Howell, Sally. Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past. Oxford University Press, 2014. Janis, Ralph. Church and City in Transition: The Social Composition of Religious Groups in Detroit, 1880-1940. New York, NY: Garland, 1990. ———. “Ethnic Mixture and the Persistence of Cultural-Pluralism in the Church Communities of Detroit, 1880-1940.” Mid-America 61, no. 2 (1979): 99–115. ———. “Flirtation and Flight: Alternatives to Ethnic Confrontation in White Anglo-American Protestant Detroit, 1880-1940.” Journal of Ethnic Studies 6 (Summer 1978): 1–18. Jeansonne, Glen. “The Priest and the President: Father Coughlin, FDR, and 1930s America.” The Midwest Quarterly 53, no. 4 (Summer 2012): 359-373,312,316. Kelly, Rosalita, IHM. No Greater Service: The History of the Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monroe, Michigan, 1845-1945. Detroit, MI: Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 1948. Kernan, Rev. William C. “Coughlin, the Jews, and Communism.” The Nation, December 17, 1938, 655–58. ———. The Ghost of Royal Oak. New York, NY: Free Speech Forum, 1940. Lee, Elizabeth Briant, and Alfred McClung Lee. The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin’s Speeches. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1939. Marcus, Sheldon. Father Coughlin: The Tumultuous Life of the Priest of the Little Flower. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1973. Mast, Robert H., ed. Detroit Lives. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994. Mazzenga, Maria. “Condemning the Nazis’ Kristallnacht: Father Maurice Sheehy, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Dissent of Father Charles Coughlin.” U.S. Catholic Historian 26, no. 4 (2008): 71–87. https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2008.0029. Modras, Ronald. “Father Coughlin and Anti-Semitism: Fifty Years Later.” Journal of Church and State 31 (1989): 231-. Ogles, Robert M., and Herbert H. Howard. “Father Coughlin in the Periodical Press, 1931– 3

1942.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 1984): 280–363. https://doi.org/10.1177/107769908406100206. Orton, Lawrence D. Polish Detroit and the Kolasiński Affair. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1981. Pare, George. The Catholic Church in Detroit, 1701-1888. Detroit, MI: Gabriel Richard Press, 1951. Pehl, Matthew. “The Remaking of the Catholic Working Class: Detroit, 1919–1945.” Religion and American Culture 19, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 37–67. https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2009.19.1.37. Pratt, Henry J. Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Retzloff, Tim. “‘Seer or Queer?’ Postwar Fascination with Detroit’s Prophet Jones.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8, no. 3 (2002): 271–96. Robinson, Julia Marie. Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2015. Rowe, Aimee M., and Michael W. Casey. “Villains and Heroes of the Great Depression: The Evolution of Father Coughlin’s Fantasy Themes.” Journal of Radio Studies 4, no. 1 (January 1997): 112–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529709391687. Salvatore, Nick. Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co., 2005. Shelly, Cara L. “Bradby’s Baptists: Second Baptist Church of Detroit, 1910-1946.” Michigan Historical Review 17, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 1–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/20173252. Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Building Sisterhood: A Feminist History of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Soderbergh, Peter A. “The Rise of Father Coughlin, 1891-1930.” Social Science 42, no. 1 (January 1967): 10–20. Spivak, John L. Shrine of the Silver Dollar. New York, NY: Modern Age Books, 1940. Stepan-Norris, Judith, and Caleb Southworth. “Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Postwar Detroit.” Social Science History 31, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 343–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014555320001378X. Stone, Ronald H. Professor Reinhold Niebuhr: A Mentor to the Twentieth Century. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1992. Studniewska, Sister Mary Jeremiah. “The Educational Work of the Felician Sisters of the Province of Detroit in the United States, 1874-1948.” MA Thesis, Catholic University, 1948. 4

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Swastek, Joseph. Detroit’s Oldest Polish Parish: St. Albertus Centennial, 1872-1973. Detroit, 1973. Tentler, Leslie Woodcock. Catholics and Contraception: An American History. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. ———. Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1990. ———. “Who Is the Church? Conflict in a Polish Immigrant Parish in Late Nineteenth-Century Detroit.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 25, no. 2 (April 1983): 241–76. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500010422. Tull, Charlese J. Father Coughlin and the New Deal. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1965. Vinyard, JoEllen M. For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998. ———. The Irish on the Urban Frontier: Nineteenth Century Detroit, 1850-1880. New York, NY: Arno Press, 1976. https://commons.emich.edu/faculty_sch/200. Ward, Richard J. “The Role of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists in the Labor Movement.” Review of Social Economy 14, no. 2 (September 1956): 79–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346765600000012. Warren, Donald I. Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio. New York, NY: Free Press, 1996. White, Horace A. “Who Owns the Negro Church?” Christian Century 55 (February 9, 1938): 176–77. Wolf, James C. “The Midwest Capuchin Province of St. Joseph, Detroit, Michigan: Its History and Its Archives.” The Michigan Historical Review 27, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 137–151. Wrobel, Paul. Our Way: Family, Parish and Neighborhood in a Polish-American Community. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. Wylie-Kellermann, Bill. Where the Water Goes Around: Beloved Detroit. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017.

Religion Unpublished Works

Al-Ahmary, Abdullah Azib. “Ethnic Self-Identity and the Role of Islam: A Study of the Yemeni Community in the South End of Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, 1998. Besanceney, Paul H., S. J. “Factors Associated with Protestant-Catholic Marriages in the Detroit Area: A Problem in Social Control.” Michigan State University, 1963. Boyea, Earl. “John Samuel Foley, Third Bishop of Detroit: His Ecclesiastical Conflicts in the Diocese of Detroit: 1880-1900.” MA Thesis, Wayne State University, 1984. Buss, Lloyd. “The Church and the City: Detroit’s Open Housing Movement.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2008. Coe, David Terrance. “A Rhetorical Study of Selected Radio Speeches of Reverend Charles Edward Coughlin.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1970. Cuber, John F. “A Study of the Effects of the Depression Upon a Group of Protestant Churches in Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1937. Dalton, Sister Arthemise M. “The History and Development of the Catholic Secondary School System in the Archdiocese of Detroit, 1701-1951.” Ed.D. diss, Wayne State University, 1962. Davis, Nancy Marie. “Integration, the ‘New Negro’, and Community Building: Black Catholic Life in Four Catholic Churches in Detroit, 1911 to 1945.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1996. Davis, Richard Akin. “Radio Priest: The Public Career of Father Charles Edward Coughlin.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974. Dennis, John Lawrence. “An Analysis of the Audience of Religious Radio and Television Programs in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1962. Deslippe, Dennis A. “The Association of Catholic Trade Unionists in Detroit, 1939-1950.” MA Thesis, Wayne State University, 1988. Dillard, Angela D. “From the Reverend Charles A. Hill to the Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr.: Change and Continuity in the Patterns of Civil Rights Mobilizations in Detroit, 1935- 1967.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1995. Drachler, Norman. “The Influence of Sectarianism, Non-Sectarianism, and Secularism Upon the Public Schools of Detroit and the University of Michigan, 1837-1900.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1951. Elliott, Hydrian. “Evangelism, Black Churches Working with ‘At-Risk’ Youth: An Intervention Strategy.” D. Min. thesis, Drew University, 1998.

Gómez, José E. “Factors Affecting Cooperative Efforts Between Suburban and City Catholic Churches in Metro Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1999. Hibbard, Marian. “The Negro, His Church, and Urban Renewal: A Study of the Impact of Urban Redevelopment on the Church Participation of a Sample of Detroit Negroes, Two Years After Relocation.” M.S.W. thesis, Wayne State University, 1964. Howell, Sally. “Inventing the American Mosque: Early Muslims and Their Institutions in Detroit, 1910-1980.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2009. Janis, Ralph. “The Brave New World That Failed: Patterns of Parish Social Structure in Detroit, 1880-1940.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1972. Kaperzinski, Dennis. “The Catholic Youth Organization of the Archdiocese of Detroit: A Case Study in Institutional Development.” MA Thesis, Wayne State University, 1998. Kelly, Collin. “Papal Pulls: Parochial High Schools and Catholic Voting Patterns in Detroit, 1960-1972.” B.A. essay, University of Michigan, 2018. Kennedy, Brian Kilmartin. “Global Problems, Parochial Concerns: Urban Catholics, New Deal Politics, and the Crises of the 1930s.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 2010. Parsons, Michael H. “Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Formation of the Union Party, 1936.” MA Thesis, Western Michigan University, 1965. Pehl, Matthew. “Power in the Blood: Class, Culture, and Christianity in Industrial Detroit, 1910– 1969.” Ph.D. diss., Brandeis University, 2009. Studniewska, Sister Mary Jeremiah. “The Educational Work of the Felician Sisters of the Province of Detroit in the United States, 1874-1948.” MA Thesis, Catholic University, 1948. Tull, Charles J. “Father Coughlin the New Deal, and the Election of 1936.” Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1962. Van Olphen, Juliana Elizabeth. “Religious Involvement and Health Among African American Women on the East Side of Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2000. Ward, Richard Joseph. “The Role of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists in the American Labor Movement.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1958.