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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963
Part of the Pettigrew for President site. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Public Domain [LC-DIG-ppmsca-03130]
The Minnesota Minimum Wage Law, 1913
This is John A. Ryan's personal copy of a pamphlet discussing the constitutionality of a new law in Minnesota that established a minimum wage in 1913. The pamphlet contains the full text of the Attorney General's opinion, the text of the law itself,…
The Mission Helpers, Constitution of 1912 (With Gibbons signature of 1915)
Included here are the first several pages of the constitutions which the Mission Helpers drafted for themselves between 1906 and 1912. The General Chapter of the Mission Helpers approved the constitutions in 1912, and then Cardinal Gibbons of…
The Mission Helpers, Letters of Father Papi, 1917
Included here are three letters from Fr. Hector Papi to the Mission Helpers in 1917, providing the nuns advice on how they are to submit their application to Rome. The forth document is a note made by the Mission Helpers themselves recording which…
The Qian family in 1955
Allegations that Qian was a Communist effectively led to the suspension of his security clearance with the US Army, but his actual political allegiance at that time remains a mystery today. He was under house arrest for three years before leaving for…
The Reasonable Limits of State Activity
In this address to the Educational Convention in St. Louis, MO on June 24, 1919, Cardinal O'Connell warns of the dangers of government interference in business and citizens' private lives. Cardinal O'Connell saw government legislation regarding labor…