American Anti-war Activist. Liteky spent decades organizing support for Central American war refugees and protests against a U.S. training center for Latin American military leaders. She attended Pomona College and obtained master's degrees in religious education at Marquette University and in statistics at Stanford before entering the Catholic Church's Order of Immaculate Heart in 1965. She left an order of Catholic nuns in 1973 to become a college teacher in San Francisco, where she developed a program for young Latina women and later became involved in the sanctuary movement for refugees. In 1984, she married Charles Liteky, who as an Army chaplain in Vietnam had won the Medal of Honor for carrying more than 20 wounded soldiers through gunfire to safety in 1967. She was a plaintiff in an ongoing lawsuit seeking to require the U.S. government to release the names of the Latin American military personnel who have attended the school. Liteky and other plaintiffs said they had evidence that the school admitted military personnel who had previously been accused of human rights violations. She died at her home from complications of multiple myeloma.
American Anti-war Activist. Liteky spent decades organizing support for Central American war refugees and protests against a U.S. training center for Latin American military leaders. She attended Pomona College and obtained master's degrees in religious education at Marquette University and in statistics at Stanford before entering the Catholic Church's Order of Immaculate Heart in 1965. She left an order of Catholic nuns in 1973 to become a college teacher in San Francisco, where she developed a program for young Latina women and later became involved in the sanctuary movement for refugees. In 1984, she married Charles Liteky, who as an Army chaplain in Vietnam had won the Medal of Honor for carrying more than 20 wounded soldiers through gunfire to safety in 1967. She was a plaintiff in an ongoing lawsuit seeking to require the U.S. government to release the names of the Latin American military personnel who have attended the school. Liteky and other plaintiffs said they had evidence that the school admitted military personnel who had previously been accused of human rights violations. She died at her home from complications of multiple myeloma.
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