Review of Kenneth C. Barnes, Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960

Few social groups reside more comfortably in the modern American mainstream than Roman Catholics. That was not always the case. For decades, lasting into the early 1960s, they were subject to regular slurs and unofficial discrimination. Many Protestants regarded the Church as un-American and presumed that its adherents were in thrall to a foreign religious tyrant. Kenneth C. Barnes's Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas offers an illuminating and compelling study of this largely vanquished prejudice