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William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born in the small rural community of Great Barrington, Mass. on February 23, 1868. In his autobiography he remembered these years as being free of racial conflict or identity. His ancestry was mixed--his father, a shopkeeper, was of French and West Indian extraction, while his mother was African and Dutch...
...days to a year, are Episcopal ministers, Catholic priests, Jews and even atheists. Daily meditation periods include readings from Zen, Hindu and Islamic literature, and participants spend long hours in silent and solitary contemplation amidst wilderness surroundings. One notable visitor to the Arizona retreat was Jesuit Theologian Walter J. Burghardt, a member of the Pope's Theological Commission. "What do I think of it all?" he wrote about his contemplative experiences. "Words impoverish. For it was at once tempestuous and calming, a wrestling and a dancing, a stillness and a cry. Nothing in my 57 years rivals...
...Burghardt, the estranged son of an educator who is now president of a community college in Hartford, Conn., went to Deerfield Academy, then Rutgers, began acting in Shakespeare, later taught in the drama department at Antioch. His draft troubles began in 1966 when he applied for a conscientious-objector classification. His claim was rejected on grounds of insufficient "credibility and sincerity." The next year he was sentenced to five years (the average term is two years), but various appeals kept him out of prison until November...
...Burghardt was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., where he became friendly with another prisoner, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan. The two jogged together and discussed the theater and Viet Nam. In Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes, Berrigan wrote about Burghardt: "This young black resister...had been an actor and TV personality...He came in like a Roman candle, with all his talents exploding around...
...precisely the image of Burghardt as a "Roman candle" that worried friends when he first went to Danbury. "His presence just demands a reaction," observes Denise Spalding, a Manhattan social worker who is now raising funds for Burghardt's defense. "There is no way Arthur can walk into a room and not be noticed." Burghardt is in fact 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 250 Ibs., and he has a deep, booming voice. "The moment he went into prison," says his chief defense attorney, William Kunstler, "he was doomed...