Background
George Harold Dunne was born on March 11, 1905, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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George Harold Dunne was born on March 11, 1905, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Dunne's views on society and segregation had begun to take shape when he was a missionary in China in the 1930s and he began openly criticizing segregation in the 1940s. As he spoke out against Roman Catholic institutions that made him one of the first prominent Catholics to do so. His criticism led to him being fired from the Institute of Social Order at St. Louis University, but he later found teaching posts at Loyola University in Los Angeles and at Santa Clara University. He was active in the civil rights movement and marched with the Reverend Martin Luther King on several occasions.
His works include the books Religion and Democracy and The Right to Development, as well as the play Trial by Fire, which described the bombing of a black family that chose to live in a Los Angeles area that had been all-white until their arrival. His memoirs, The King’s Pawn: The Memoirs of George Dunne, S.J., were published in 1990.
He died on June 30, 1998, in Los Gatos.
Dunne said racial segregation was a sin and frequently spoke out against Roman Catholic institutions.
