Pope

...n illustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. Nast blamed the attacks on both the ethnicity of the Irish and their Catholic religion, believing that it made them incompatible with American values. “A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the “heathens”

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Lawrence E. McCrossin papers, 1917-1919 (MC 4)

...arley of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and Major Thomas F. Meehan of the United States Army; booklets on the subject of various aspects of French life and government along with literature on the Republic of Ireland; and copies of the Chicago Tribune and New York Herald Tribune

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American Czestochowa

...s ousted from Hungary by the Communist government of the Hungarian Peoples Republic and, after a few years in Rome, traveled to the United States in 1951. After traveling and preaching at various Polish parishes here and in Canada, Father Zembrzuski wanted to find a way to strengthen and revive

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Friendly and Adopted Sons

...ry to George Washington), Thomas Fitzsimmons (one of only two Catholics to sign the Constitution), and George Meade (banker and trustee of Old. St. Mary’s).[1] The group was non-denomination and had members from Catholics to Quakers.[2] The group created a constitution, limiting members to those that were “the descendants of

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