Pope
...rated 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” of
Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...per of the paper: "I shall try to make this journal an interpreter between American and Irish friends of liberty. As soon as Americans know the true story of Ireland they will support her in every wise effort to overthrow the despotic rule of England." By the third issue, published
James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?
...ry. In it's 1885 charter, the ACHS stated that it's purpose "shall be the preservation and publication of Catholic American historical documents, the investigation of American Catholic history, especially that of Philadelphia, and the development of interest in Catholic historical research." It appears, however, that like many historical societies, the
Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal
...ublished in 1892. The paper was created by black Catholics for the African American Catholic community. PAHRC has several issues of the paper. July 9, 1892 issue Black Catholics, made up of both free and enslaved African Americans, had been a presence in Philadelphia since the establishment of the city's