Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...s clashed with the National Guard protecting an Irish Protestant parade, Nast drew a number of anti-Irish cartoons for Harper’s Weekly. One cartoon illustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. At the top of the drawing Nast wrote that the Irish
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...lectures and society picnics.[12] However, in Pennsylvania, many counties struggled to form county chapters, with only 11 counties having chapters in 1914. In many places like Columbia County, Catholics resisted joining the FCS because of concern over the perceived political problems of such a Catholic organization.[13] With the outbreak of
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...a serious sin. Dougherty would often clarify that the boycott was not against movies per se just the theaters so if a parish hall had a film screening of an acceptable movie then Catholics would be permitted to go to that. The difference being that the theaters were “occasions of
41st International Eucharistic Congress
...various items in our collection. [1] John DeMayo and Joseph Casino, The Forty-First Interional Eucharistic Congress, August 1-8, 1976: A History, (Pennsauken: DeVilieger, 1978) 6, 144; MC 80, 100.611: Committee on Special Guests: Final Report to the Board of Governors, August 16, 1967, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8121. [2] MC 80, 100.2792: Letter