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The Kehoe Foundation challenges the myth of the \"Molly Maguires\" as a gang of Irish terrorists in the 1870s Pennsylvania coalfields. It argues that the term was a smear used to persecute influential Irish Catholics and their benevolent society, the AOH.
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.
Dec 18, 2008 · Posted on 18 December, 2008 by Headsman. On this date in 1878, John “Black Jack” Kehoe was hanged in Pottsville — as Pennsylvania’s anthracite trusts took a victory lap around the corpses of the Molly Maguires. Even to say what the Mollies were is to take a side in their life-and-death struggle.
John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires, is executed in Pennsylvania. The Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society that had allegedly been responsible for some incidences of vigilante...
Jack Kehoe, leader of the Molly Maguires in Girardville, Pa. In 1875, a writer of the time observed, there came from coal-mining district of Pennsylvania "an appalling series of tales of murder, of arson, and of every description of violent crime."
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Today, these hangings have been recognized as unjustified, and in 1979 the state of Pennsylvania gave John Kehoe, the alleged king of the Molly Maguires, a full state pardon over a hundred years after his death.
Kehoe’s efforts to rally for the unionization of workers of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, lead to an alleged affiliation with the Molly Maguires and the moniker of “King of the Mollies.” The papers portrayed the Molly Maguires as a clandestine, renegade group that terrorized the coal companies and their ...
