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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "O'Brien, Thomas J. [1]".
Thomas O'Brien was a religion teacher at Brother Rice High School in Chicago, Illinois. He was working on a graduate degree in education at this time. He asks Merton's advice for a paper he was writing for a course. O'Brien entitled his paper: "Catholic Church Non-Involvement in Ghetto Areas, and Consequent Adverse Effect on Negro Acculturation". (Source: The Road to Joy, pp. 364.)
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See also one published letter from Thomas Merton to O'Brien in The Road to Joy, pp. 364-365.
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1968/03/15 |
TLS to Merton |
I am preparing a research paper for an education course. The topic has been left to the students, |
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1968/04/09 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Well, since your letter, we haveseen [sic] some tragic new developments in the area of race |
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