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My Mother’s Mom

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My Mother’s Mom

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.  – Oliver Wendell Holmes Grandmother must have been about forty-six when I first met her. I was already six weeks old myself and I couldn’t get together with her any sooner. Mom’s parents lived four hundred miles away, before…

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Philadelphia Nativist Riot (Anti-Catholic Race Theory)

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Philadelphia Nativist Riot (Anti-Catholic Race Theory)

The antipathy toward [Irish Catholics] rested not only on their reputation for violence and their religious difference from the bulk of the city’s natives, but also upon their competition for jobs at the lowest occupational levels, their menial status, their foreign aspect and clannishness, and their notorious intemperance. – Dennis Clark Just because our brains…

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