Brady Tyson 

Brady Tyson was born in San Antonio and received his education from Rice University and the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He was teaching about the ethics of world politics in Washington, D.C., when he was called by the Methodist Church to be a missionary in Brazil, where he spent four years. In 1966, Tyson and his wife were expelled from Brazil for attempting to defend the students and faculty being held and tortured by the Brazilian military police. Tyson was chosen to speak at the Geneva Convention for his work on human rights. Tyson spoke out against U.S. support of military dictatorships in Latin America. In the congressional record, a U.S. congressman reacts to Tyson’s speech and his career as a proponent for human rights and denounces him as “an avowed marxist.”