Toolen, Archbishop Thomas J.
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@ The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
Wilber Palmer
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The funeral of Archbishop Thomas Joseph Toolen. Toolen, born in Baltimore in 1886 was ordained in 1910. In 1927 Pope Pius XI appointed Toolen the sixth bishop of Mobile, Alabama. He was named archbishop in 1954. Toolen was instrumental in establishing churches, schools, and a hospital for African Americans in Mobile, but has become better known for his opposition to Catholics' participation in the events in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Toolen died in Mobile in 1976.
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The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South AlabamaKeywords
- Alabama
- Alabama Religion In The 20th Century
- Catholic Church. Archdiocese Of Mobile (Ala.)
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights And Religion
- Civil Rights Movement
- Mobile
- Peoples Of Alabama
- Religion
- Religion And Education
- Roman Catholic Church, Bishops, Archbishops, Death, Religion, Funerals
- Selma To Montgomery 1965 Voting Rights March
- Toolen, Thomas J. (1886 1976)
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