Can anyone name priests or bishops that stood against the miscegenation laws in the US?

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Doing some research, hoping I can find some.
If anyone can help me out- please cite your sources. Primary sources are best, as usual.
 
I don’t know of any bishop who specifically opposed miscegenation laws. But I do know Archbishop Cody, later Cardinal Cody; then of New Orleans and later of Chicago, was vehemently opposed to segregation at a time when it wasn’t particularly popular to be against it.

I think I would google him. Sorry, but that’s the best I can do.
 
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Doing some research, hoping I can find some.
If anyone can help me out- please cite your sources. Primary sources are best, as usual.
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I don’t have primary sources or names, but I do have a couple of secondary (or tertiary!) suggestions.

Rodney Stark gives Catholics a lot of credit or opposing racism in 19th-century America. You can find this in his For the Glory of God. He makes the common mistake of confusing slavery and racism and thus whitewashing the Catholic Church’s record (or, as Catholics would prefer to say it, the record of Catholics) of condoning slavery as a form of social inequality. I would consider Stark a “tertiary” rather than even a secondary source–that is to say, I don’t find his readings of historical primary sources to be generally reliable or persuasive, but it’s worth looking at his footnotes to see what his sources (primary or secondary) are.

Amy Laura Hall’s book Conceiving Parenthood is a blistering attack on early-20th-century mainline Protestantism for its surrender to eugenics and racism. The Catholic Church comes off looking quite good in the book, and I remember her citing specific instances of Catholics opposing the eugenics program. Not perhaps quite what you are looking for, but not unrelated either.

Edwin
 
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