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The Commuter: Road signs a bridge to the past


The Commuter: Road signs a bridge to the past
Commuter-types, like myself, travel through history every day.
It is written on signs everywhere.
We all know that Vacaville was named after a pioneering family, Vallejo after a Mexican general and Benicia after his wife, and when Thomas Dickson donated 10 acres to the railroad, the history of Dixon was slapped on the behind.
Fairfield, of course, is named after a sports packaging company in Des Moines, Iowa.
Google is so awesome.
But those are the easy history lessons, as are the signposts on major thoroughfares, such as Travis Boulevard and Manuel Campos Parkway, named for a notable Fairfield councilman and mayor. ....

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'The Birth of a Nation' sparked decades of racial violence. This Jesuit understood its unholy power.


Theatrical release poster for The Birth of a Nation, distributed by Epoch Film Co. (Wikimedia Commons) 
As we approach the centenary of the Tulsa Race Massacre and experience a growing recognition of its horrors, it is worth remembering a question raised by Daniel Lord, S.J. (1888-1955), one of the most influential Catholic priests in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s. Did the rise of the movie industry fuel the flames of racial hatred in the United States?
Lord grew up in Chicago but moved to St. Louis for his Jesuit training. Ordained as a priest in 1923, he was soon assigned to become national director of the “Queen’s Work” office in St. Louis named for Mary, the mother of Jesus or “The Queen of Heaven.” The office had been created to promote the Jesuit sodality movement. Sodalities were religious clubs at Catholic high schools, colleges and parishes. At their peak some 13,000 sodalities existed across the United States and Canada. During his ca ....

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