[metmom]

You guys have any sources for that?

I keep hearing it on FR but never heard it before.

[wintertime]

There is lots on the Internet. A good place to start would be to Google:

The Blaine Act and anti-Catholicism public schools.

Nativism anti-Catholicism public schools

History of Catholic schools public schools anti-catholicism

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Here's a chapter of a book from Wake Forest:

Catholicism in 19th Century America