Sister Marguerite Green studied in the graduate school at Catholic University. “Researching for her dissertation on the labor movement gave her a powerful encounter with social justice and injustice, which revealed the process of history to her. Issues of justice remained important to her all her life.” She served many years on the faculty of Barat college, during which time she “strengthened her internationality by doing· Japanese studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, the History of Women at the University of London, and studied the Middle East.”
“In the late 60's and early 7O's the changes sweeping the world affected both the College and religious life. With her deep and serious historical insight, Marg entered profoundly into those changes.” Leading by example, she took “a group of students to Selma, Alabama, to participate in the voting rights march there. Her likeminded Superior encouraged it, even though the Society was still cloistered in the 1960s.”
After leaving Barat, Marg “joined the World Without War Council in Berkeley, California, and spent some happy years in San Francisco.”
Quotations from obituary.
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