The+Molly+Maguires

Desi Page;Jenna Laidley;Sara Farahani

The Mollies were a secret organization of Irish Catholic coal miners in Schuykill County, Pennsylvania. They were enraged about the incredibly poor working conditions and low wages of their union. They beat and murdered union heads, police, and people who stood in their way. They were portrayed in the media as evil murderers, so people rarely considered their point of view. The Mollies wanted change in the coal mining working conditions and would do anything to get it.

One of the quotes made by a Molly Maguire was "You either end up on the gallows or coughing your lungs out, what's the difference?" They thought that whether or not they killed people, they were still going to die a painful death. So, they figured, why not kill people for the sake of their cause and try to force change through fear.

-Another reason they rebeled was because they were basically slaves. They always owed something to the Mining Company.

John "Black Jack" Kehoe Alexander Campbell Thomas Munley
 * Here are a few Molly Maguires:**

And this guy was one of the people who helped send the Mollies to the gallows James McParlan

Here's a video about the Mollies: [|The Molly Maguires: A Life of Tragic History]

__**websites used:**__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires http://www.providence.edu/polisci/students/molly_maguires/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRoVTu2izx0 http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/mollymaguires.php http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066090/

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