Tag: Catonsville 9
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50 years ago this month, the Catonsville 9 burned draft records in a suburban Baltimore parking lot.
What led a group of nine ordinary Americans—including an artist, a nurse, and three clergymen—to seize several hundred draft records from a Selective Service office in Maryland and burn them in a nearby parking lot? Well, it was 1968 and many Americans had had enough of the Vietnam war. The nine Catholics, who came to be…