MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Flanagan, James T.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1965
Volume: 3 item(s); 5 pg(s)
Scope and Content
James Flanagan objects to Merton's claims in Seeds of Destruction that "In most Catholic Churches of the South, Negro Communicants may only approach the altar rail after all the whites have departed", and that "the converted Negro is still not welcome in every southern Catholic Church" (Seeds of Destruction. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964; pp. 12 and 59). He agrees with many of the other points Merton makes in this book. Merton apologizes for making the generalization and points to his source of information. He still does not dismiss the racial problems of the South, but thinks it is the job of Southerners (and he includes himself) to fix the problems. The files includes original signed letters from Flanagan (with his legal partners Malvern Driscoll and Melvin Ramos cosigning the first letter), and a carbon copy of Merton's response to the first letter.
Biography
James T. Flanagan was an attorney with the law offices of Driscoll, Flanagan and Ramos from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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