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Molly Maguires - Wikipedia The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania
Who Were the Molly Maguires? - HISTORY In the latter half of the 19th century, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was an area rife with violence Between 1861 and 1875, a series of violent assaults, arsons and murders was blamed on a
Molly Maguires | Irish Immigrants, Coal Miners, Secret Society - Britannica Molly Maguires, secret organization of coal miners supposedly responsible for acts of terrorism in the coalfields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, U S , in the period from 1862 to 1876 The group named itself after a widow who led a group of Irish antilandlord agitators in the 1840s
The Legend of the Molly Maguires | Pennsylvania Center for the Book Molly Maguire, an Irish widow, in the 1840s, protested against English landlords who tried to steal peoples land She headed a group called the “Anti-landlord Agitators” who were best known for getting in bare knuckle fights with their landlords in order to maintain their land and their dignity
Pennsylvania State Archives - Molly Maguires Records at the Pennsylvania State Archives concerning the Molly Maguires fall under two main categories The Record Groups contain government records relating to the incident, while Manuscript Groups contain primarily personal papers and photos that were acquired from private donors
Molly Maguires - Kehoe Foundation Decades of research suggest that the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and a hostile press used this pejorative term to persuade a credulous public that a gang of Irish outlaws—the so-called “Molly Maguires”—had banded together in the 1870s to terrorize the Pennsylvania coalfields
Research Guides: Molly Maguires: Topics in Chronicling America . . . An Irish secret society known as the Molly Maguires is thought responsible for a string of violent attacks in the Pennsylvania coal fields After Pinkerton detective James McParlan goes undercover to join their ranks, 20 Mollies are tried, convicted, and hanged Read more about it!
Molly Maguires Trials (1876-77) - University of Missouri–Kansas City The Molly Maguires Trials (1876-77) by Douglas O Linder (2010) In 1875, a writer of the time observed, there came from the coal-mining district of Pennsylvania "an appalling series of tales of murder, of arson, and of every description of violent crime "