15 Facts About David Eberhardt

David Eberhardt is best known for his participation, with Philip Berrigan and two others, in the antiwar action known as the Baltimore Four, an immediate precursor to the Catonsville Nine.

David Eberhardt's mother was one of the first teachers at the St James Academy, part of the St James Church.

David Eberhardt's father was author of the book The Bible in the Making of Ministers.

David Eberhardt took after his mother, who was born a Mack, and thus Mack was his middle name.

David Eberhardt's father Silas Mack was an immigration judge in Monterey, California.

On his mother's side David Eberhardt is related to Joseph Smith, prophet-founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

David Eberhardt is a graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School, and Oberlin College.

David Eberhardt's influences include the hymn Once to Every Man and Nation, based on a James Russell Lowell poem.

David Eberhardt is influenced by the Anglican processional hymn For All the Saints by Walsham How, making it the title of one of his books.

David Eberhardt additionally cites the unofficial national anthem of England, "Jerusalem", a choral song by Sir Hubert Parry.

David Eberhardt taught for several years at the Boys' Latin School of Maryland in Baltimore, then began a life of activism, first in the civil rights movement with Baltimore's renowned civil rights leader Walter P Carter as a mentor.

David Eberhardt liked to joke that he was one of the few inmates who was actually "corrected" in the correctional system, in that it gave him a career in criminal justice.

David Eberhardt worked for the National Moratorium on Prison Construction, sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee along with Brian Willson, on alternatives to prison.

David Eberhardt never stopped getting arrested, for example protests at the Pentagon and NRA headquarters.

David Eberhardt assisted the Baltimore Non Violence Center and as well the SPARK's campaigns for a Workers Party.