Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Philip Berrigan, 1985.
Creator: | Berrigan, Philip | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 232 pages Sound recording 7 audiocassettes | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NotePeace activist
Scope and ContentsFamily background, experiences during World War II as artilleryman; education at Holy Cross; decision to join Josephite Order of Roman Catholic Church, ordination to priesthood; involvement with civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., New Orleans and Baltimore; teaching in Catholic schools; non-violent opposition to Vietnam War: destruction of draft documents at Catonsville, MD., serving jail sentences, going underground; marriage and excommunication; peace activism and Plowshares movement; communal life at Jonah House; relationship of religious ethics and politics, liberation theology
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986
| |