College of Saint Mary President Stevens's Statement in Response to Racism in U.S.
June 11, 2020
June 11, 2020
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 11 -- The College of Saint Mary issued the following statement by President Maryanne Stevens:
I was a young woman in the '60s. My ideals were born during the civil rights struggles and the protests to end the Vietnam War. My heroes were Dorothy Day, a Catholic peace activist, who started a string of homeless shelters in New York in the 1930s; Dr. Martin Luther King, who led the overthrow of the Jim Crow laws of the South; and Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, who . . .
I was a young woman in the '60s. My ideals were born during the civil rights struggles and the protests to end the Vietnam War. My heroes were Dorothy Day, a Catholic peace activist, who started a string of homeless shelters in New York in the 1930s; Dr. Martin Luther King, who led the overthrow of the Jim Crow laws of the South; and Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, who . . .