Catherine McAuley Quotes
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McAuley, Catherine. The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841. Edited by Mary C. Sullivan, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, p. 138.
There was no Civil Rights Law during Kennedy’s administration, and Black African diplomats who were driving from New York to Washington would be refused accommodations and amenities at restaurants and rest stops along the way. They often protested to the State Department who approached the President asking what they should tell the diplomats.
Catherine McAuley was an Irish religious sister who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831. The women's congregation has always been associated with teaching, especially in Ireland, where the sisters taught Catholics (and at times Protestants) at a time when education was mainly reserved for members of the established Church of Ireland.