Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...burg, Jeremiah Shanahan, who in a letter to Wood spoke of the “outrages perpetrated by the Mollie Maguires,” and the suspicion that the AOH and the Mollies were connected.”[19] The belief that the two organizations were one and the same, caused the national AOH to have to condemn the Mollies
Civil Rights
...onists to a misbehaving child that needs to be controlled and corrected by American society. McGovern, “I Raised Him from a Puppy,” March 22, 1968 McGovern is commenting on the need for white Americans to reflect on and address the role they have played in fostering racism. McGovern, “Step in
The Other Drexel: Louise Drexel Morrell
...’s Agricultural and Industrial School in Virginia to provide young African-American men with secular and religious education. The plight of African-Americans was an area of intense concern for Louise. She was one of the early supporters of the Catholic Interracial Movement. St. Francis' Industrial School, ca. 1897 Although extremely wealthy
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...lso visited Satterlee several times to confirm many adult converts. Father Peter McGrane, no date The practice of military medicine during the war was an eye-opening experience. The wounds caused by the new and improved artillery met the outdated medical practices of understaffed field hospitals, resulting in an epidemic of