part because he was well into his 70s by then. However, just three months before his death, LaFarge walked in the 1963 March on Washington and stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial behind Martin Luther King Jr. for his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, a public acknowledgment of LaFarge's early role in a movement for racial equality that was now being led by others. At his eulogy, Boston's Cardinal Richard Cushing spoke of him as a pioneer in the field of interracial justice. Awards According to an article published in The Catholic Advocate on 4 February 1960, LaFarge received a number of awards from groups who endorsed his activities; the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion, the Catholic Interracial Councils of New York, Chicago and St. Louis, the Liberty Medallion of the American Jewish Committee, the Social Justice Award of the National Religion and Labor Foundation, the World Brotherhood Award of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the 1955 Peace Award of the Catholic Association for International Peace. Publications Reflections on Growing Old (1963) Race Relations (1956) The Manner is Ordinary (1953, a memoir) The Race Question and the Negro (1943) Interracial Justice: A Study of the Catholic Doctrine of Race Relations (1937) See also References 1880 births 1963 deaths 19th-century American Jesuits 20th-century American Jesuits Writers from Newport, Rhode Island Harvard University alumni Catholics from Rhode Island African-American Roman Catholicism La Farge family