Brother Booker Ashe: It's Amazing What the Lord Can Do - Softcover

Thorn, Willy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874620910 ISBN 13: 9780874620917

Publisher: Marquette University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Booker Taliaferro Ashe was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1932 to Booker T. Ashe, Sr., a lawyer, and Evelyn Livingston, a schoolteacher. With his parents and five siblings, Booker moved to Evanston, IL, just outside of Chicago. A relative of the tennis player Arthur Ashe, Booker was himself a talented actor who pursued life on the stage at Chicagos Goodman Theatre.

But he soon felt called to religious life, and - to the joy of his mother and reluctance of his father - in 1951 the devout young Catholic joined the Capuchin branch of the Franciscan Ordo Fratrum Minorum (OFMs) as a brother. What followed is, as the saying goes, history... In Brother Booker Ashe: Its Amazing What the Lord Can Do, Willy Thorn presents this history, this story of a black man's life-long dedication to justice, charity, and the poor. Brother Booker lived throughout the Midwest - including Chicago, Indiana & Detroit - but spent the majority of his life in Milwaukee, preaching, directing plays, cooking grandiose meals, working for racial equality, and ministering to countless people at the landmark institution he helped found - the House of Peace. From this position, which Brother Booker assumed when he was 35 and maintained until close to his death, he became a powerful, positive influence on the entire city, the Franciscan family & the Roman Catholic Church.

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About the Author

Willy Thorn was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended Capuchin-run St. Lawrence Seminary for high school, before earning degrees in Journalism & Mass Communications from Marquette University. His awards include: National Catholic Press Association writing awards for national reporting, news stories, & magazine feature writing; the Pete Axthelm Memorial Award for Sportswriting Excellence and the Minnesota State Gateway Trail Photography Contest. This is his first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marquette University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874620910
• ISBN 13: 9780874620917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195