27 Facts About Philip Berrigan

Philip Berrigan engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience in the cause of peace and nuclear disarmament and was often arrested.

Philip Berrigan had five brothers, including the Jesuit fellow-activist and poet, Daniel Berrigan.

Philip Berrigan's father, Tom Berrigan, was a second-generation Irish-Catholic, trade union member, socialist, and railway engineer.

Philip Berrigan graduated from high school in Syracuse, New York, and was then employed cleaning trains for the New York Central Railroad.

In 1943, after a semester of schooling at St Michael's College, Toronto, Philip Berrigan was drafted into combat duty in.

Philip Berrigan served in the artillery during the Battle of the Bulge and later became a Second Lieutenant in the infantry.

Philip Berrigan was deeply affected by racial segregation and racism during boot camp in the American South.

Philip Berrigan graduated with an English degree from the College of the Holy Cross, a Jesuit college in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Philip Berrigan went on to gain a degree in Secondary Education at Loyola University of the South and then a Master of Arts degree at Xavier University of Louisiana in 1960, during which time he began to teach at High.

Philip Berrigan rejected the traditional, isolated stance of the Church in black communities.

Philip Berrigan was incurably secular; he saw the Church as one resource, bringing to bear on the squalid facts of racism the light of the Gospel, the presence of inventive courage and hope.

Philip Berrigan was moved again to St Peter Claver Parish in West Baltimore, Maryland, from where he started the Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission, leading lobbies and demonstrations.

Eberhardt and Lewis served jail time and Philip Berrigan was sentenced to six years in federal prisons.

In 1968, six months after the Baltimore draft records protest, while out on bail, Philip Berrigan decided to repeat the protest in a modified form.

Philip Berrigan was convicted of conspiracy and destruction of government property on November 8,1968, but was bailed for 16 months while the case went to the US Supreme Court.

Twelve days later Philip Berrigan was arrested by the FBI and jailed in Lewisburg.

Philip Berrigan attracted the notice of federal authorities again when he and six other anti-war activists were caught trading letters alluding to kidnapping Henry Kissinger and bombing steam tunnels.

Philip Berrigan helped the Milwaukee 14 in a protest against the Milwaukee Draft Boards on September 24,1968.

Philip Berrigan supported the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, the burglary of an FBI field office in Media, Penn.

Philip Berrigan was involved with the Camden 28, who took action against the Camden, New Jersey, draft board.

Philip Berrigan likewise supported the Harrisburg Seven, whose plan was to put people in the government like Henry Kissinger under citizens arrest for the waging of an illegal war.

In 1968, Philip Berrigan signed the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

Philip Berrigan helped set up Jonah House as the community headquarters of the organisation, a terraced house in Reservoir Hill, Baltimore.

Philip Berrigan was indicted for malicious destruction of property and sentenced to 30 months in prison.

On December 6,2002, Philip Berrigan died of liver and kidney cancer at the age of 79 at Jonah House in Baltimore.

Philip Berrigan went to prison again and again and again for his beliefs.

Philip Berrigan was an inspiration to a large number of people.