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![]() ![]() Peter Claver, Berrigan founded the Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission, a coalition of mostly religious activists in the city advocating against the war. ![]() The two Berrigans graced the cover of Time magazine in 1971 under the headline “Rebel Priests.”Īt St. Peter Claver was also home for a time to the peace activist Philip Berrigan, who, along with his brother Daniel, was among the country’s most influential dissenters to the Vietnam War. Here are one reporter’s favorites.Ī newcomer’s favorite idiosyncrasies of Baltimore architecture The scents of Baltimore conjure strong memories. Soon after, the parish chartered buses to send members to the nation’s capital for the Poor People’s Campaign, the march on Washington organized by King and carried on after his death by other Civil Rights leaders like Ralph David Abernathy. Peter Claver’s Father Henry Offer was among a group of clergy to denounce then-Governor Spiro Agnew, who had criticized local Black leaders over riots in the wake of King’s death, blaming them for the unrest. In the days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., in April of 1968, St. First recommended to me by Lauren Schiszik, historic preservation planner with the city, I learned from the great resource Baltimore Heritage that in American Civil Rights history, Claver has a long resume. Peter Claver is Baltimore’s second-oldest Black Catholic church. Named for the patron saint of enslaved people, St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in Sandtown-Winchester, which I think gives it a retro vibe. I love the simple red brick and green trim of St. Peter Claver Catholic Church has a long and distinguished resume. In American Civil Rights history, West Baltimore’s St. ![]()
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