St. Elizabeth Catholic School

CTL-E-1266 · School · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Bronzeville Catholic grade school at 4052 S. Wabash: successor of the merger of St. Elizabeth parish (founded 1881 for Irish Catholics) with St. Monica (founded 1893/1894 by Augustus Tolton, the Black parish). Operated the city's first Black Catholic high school (to 1967); governance by Archdiocese/parish and women religious, not Black lay governance.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-070; source research type(s): school. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

S-codes S14 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S14,S15 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S15,S17 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S17 (see working/track-b/sources.md)

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