Mollie Maguires: Movie Compari

Title: Mollie Maguires: Movie Compari
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Mollie Maguires: Movie Compari

Lance Fulton Molly Maguires: Movie Comparison On October 27, 1873, a man calling himself James McKenna emerged from a train at the station in Port Clinton, a small community on the southern border of Pennsylvania's Schuylkill County. It was coal-mining country, a rough part of the world suffering from the effects of what one newspaper had called a "reign of terror" orchestrated by a shadowy organization dubbed the Molly Maguires. Since 1862 the Mollies had been blamed for …showed first 75 words of 4006 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 4006 total…portrayed the Mollies as “guilty as hell”, it did accomplish the task of relaying the message of the unusually harsh lifestyle Irish immigrants were forced to endure. 26 Even though it did not deal too much with the history behind the formation of the Mollies, it intimated that a distinct history was definitely there. 25 Ibid., O’dea. 26 Zaniello, Tom. Workers, Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds and Riffraff: An organized guide to films about labor. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996, 165.

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