Mary Moylan was a nurse-midwife and political activist, primarily known for her participation with the Catonsville Nine.
13 Facts About Mary Moylan
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Mary Moylan was given the middle name Assumpta because she was born on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.
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Mary Moylan did a second tour in Africa with the Women Volunteers Association.
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Mary Moylan remained in Uganda a few more months and then returned to Washington, DC, where she lived in a community run by the Archdiocese of Washington, and eventually in a community at 1620 S Street NW, where she met George Mische, another of the Nine.
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Mary Moylan was influenced by the teachings of Jesuit priest Richard McSorley and liberation theologian priest Camillo Torres Restrepo.
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Mary Moylan was one of two women on Catonsville Nine, the other being Marjorie Bradford Melville, and Mary Moylan was the only native of Baltimore.
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Mary Moylan scuffled over a telephone with one of the clerks, Phyllis Morsberger, assuring her repeatedly "We won't hurt you" before relinquishing it, and walking away saying "It's all yours".
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Mary Moylan participated in the trial, receiving bail of $5,000 and a sentence of two years, but did not report to prison.
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Mary Moylan did not even attend her mother's funeral out of fear that the FBI would be waiting for her there.
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Mary Moylan described her life as one of nomadic poverty, often staying with friends and various women's communities.
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Mary Moylan was affiliated with secular radical antiwar groups, at was at the edges of SDS, RYMII and others though ultimately not aligning with them and instead embracing feminism over all else.
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Mary Moylan was portrayed by some friends as troubled because of her exile and the nature of her death, but George Mische objected to this image.
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Mary Moylan was said to have stayed at Viva House, Baltimore Catholic Worker, before going underground.