St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 1895–1965

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments  ix Abbreviations  xiii Introduction  1 Part I Methodist Women Doing Settlement Work: 1895–World War I Chapter 1. The Mary Werlein Mission, 1895–1908  25 Chapter 2. St. Mark’s Hall, 1909–1917  57 Chapter 3. St. Mark’s Community Center in the Post–World War I Era  83 Part II Work for Gender and Racial Equality: 1920s–1960 Chapter 4. “A Restlessness of Women”   107 Chapter 5. Addressing Racial Injustice before and after Brown  135 Part III Crises in Church, Center, and City: 1960–1965 Chapter 6. St. Mark’s in Crisis, 1960–1965  159 Chapter 7. Assessing St. Mark’s in the Sixties  183 Part IV Post-1965 and Conclusion Chapter 8. Since 1965  209 Chapter 9. Conclusion  223 Appendix A. Sources for Research on MECS Women’s Work  245 Appendix B. A Charter of Racial Policies  254 Notes  255 Index  295 Illustrations Postcard of St. Mark’s, ca. 1923–26  2 The Center’s Staff on Easter 1930  4 Berta Ellison and Margaret Young Wearing Deaconess Attire  9 Elvira Beach Carré, One of the Driving Forces behind the Establishment of St. Mark’s  49 Hattie Rowland Parker  75 Berta Ellison and Mary Lou Barnwell in 1928  89 Ground floor, 1130 North Rampart Street  92 Second floor, 1130 North Rampart Street  93 Third floor, 1130 North Rampart Street  94 Helen Mandlebaum with Annie Rogers, One of the First Women Appointed to the New Facility on Rampart Street  100 Mary Lou Barnwell in the Summer of 1927  108 Mary Lou Barnwell in Audubon Park, Easter, 1929  109 Julia Southard Campbell Served at St. Mark’s from 1935 to 1943  113 The Center’s Head Resident, Deaconess Nettie Stroup, 1935  117 Game Room for Young People at St. Mark’s  119 The Home Maker’s Club at St. Mark’s, 1935  120 Volunteer Dentist at the Center’s Health Clinic, 1930s   122 Deaconesses Wortley Moorman and Margaret Marshall  123 Margaret Young, Who Went on to Teach at Scarritt College  129 Elvira Beach Carré Later in her Life  228 ...