Good Evening,

This is my first official week of working at the WLA. I have decided to take on a project that focuses on Helen Sauer Brown. She graduated Mundelein College in 1944 and she also returned for her masters in religious studies which she received in 1970. She was extremely involved within her community and spend some time teaching Religion at Nazareth Academy. However, I will be focusing on her political career that involved marching in Washington D.C. as a peace activist and also in Springfield as an organizer of the Equal Rights Amendment on behalf of the Illinois Catholic Women. There are some speeches and letters that I have been reading that reveal her political and religious views. Below is a portion of one of the letters she wrote to the Nazareth Academy explaining why she did not agree with a war tax. Once I have collected enough information and structured what I want to say, I will be posting my work to the WLA blog.

This section of her letter is only a mere representation of the frustration she felt towards the American government during the Vietnam War. Brown believed that it was illogical that the government was spending money on certain issues that, in her opinion, did not concern the United States. She strongly advocated for addressing the problems within this country and not allowing issues of war distract Americans from problems such as poverty or gender inequality. 

All information was provided by: 

• http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/wla/pdfs/Brown,_Hellen_Sauer1.pdf
• http://content.library.luc.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/coll7&CISOPTR=10&REC=1
• http://content.library.luc.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcoll18&CISOPTR=7&DMSCALE=50&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=0&DMX=940&DMY=300&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&REC=12&DMROTATE=0&x=139&y=256