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[No Title], p.5
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"At a Fourth of July demonstration at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in 1963, 22 ministers were arrested protesting racial discrimination at the park: among them was Monsignor Austin Healy who represented the Cardinal and the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
The park management later yielded to community pressure and agreed to desegregate the park.
In 1963, Morgan State College was among the first to haul Cardinal Shehan as one of the leaders of the movement for racial equality. On June 3, he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in a laudatory statement by the college president, Dr. Martin D. Jenkins.
Other major contributions Cardinal Shehan has lent to the total spectrum of a man’s relationship to man include:
The end of segregation in all Catholic schools.
A halt to discrimination in Catholic hospitals.
A directive to Catholic institutions to deal only with business establishments who follow a policy of equal employment.
Cardinal Shehan was born in Baltimore March 18, 1898.
He studied at St. Charles College from 1911-1917, when he graduated summa cum laude. He spent the next three years at St. Mary Seminary, Paca St. There he completed his philosophy studies, earning an M.A. and began to study theology.
During 1920-32 he finished his theological studies at the North American College, Rome, where he earned a doctorate in Scared Theology from Urban College.
The Cardinal was ordained a priest on December 23, 1922. He has been a bishop since December 12, 1945, when he was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore."
The park management later yielded to community pressure and agreed to desegregate the park.
In 1963, Morgan State College was among the first to haul Cardinal Shehan as one of the leaders of the movement for racial equality. On June 3, he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in a laudatory statement by the college president, Dr. Martin D. Jenkins.
Other major contributions Cardinal Shehan has lent to the total spectrum of a man’s relationship to man include:
The end of segregation in all Catholic schools.
A halt to discrimination in Catholic hospitals.
A directive to Catholic institutions to deal only with business establishments who follow a policy of equal employment.
Cardinal Shehan was born in Baltimore March 18, 1898.
He studied at St. Charles College from 1911-1917, when he graduated summa cum laude. He spent the next three years at St. Mary Seminary, Paca St. There he completed his philosophy studies, earning an M.A. and began to study theology.
During 1920-32 he finished his theological studies at the North American College, Rome, where he earned a doctorate in Scared Theology from Urban College.
The Cardinal was ordained a priest on December 23, 1922. He has been a bishop since December 12, 1945, when he was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore."
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Baltimore Afro-American
Date
1974-4-13
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N/A, “[No Title], p.5,” African American Fourth of July, accessed May 2, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/109.