Father Augustus Tolton Size:Father Augustus Tolton (Large) Mother Jones (1860 - 1918)The

Mother Jones (1860 - 1918)The labor upheaval and the fight for unions in the early part of the 20th century produced many towering figures

Aldous Huxley

All she had was her bible and before she was shot six times she read her murderers a line from the Beatitudes: “Blessed are the merciful

Mary saw the plight of the working class and while the city rebuilt Mary started organizing strikes and protests

Father Augustus Tolton Size:Father Augustus Tolton (Large) Mother Jones (1860 - 1918)TheFather Augustus Tolton (1854 1897)Augustus Tolton may have spent his entire life making history and enduring oppression and injustice as the first Black Catholic priest in the United States but never saw himself as the center or focus of his life. He lived for God alone and poured himself out in the service of his brothers and sisters, regardless of their color or creed. Augustus was born in 1854 to Peter Paul and Martha Tolton; both slaves in