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Ignatius Donnelly was born in Philadelphia in 1831, the son of Irish Catholic immigrants. After attending a prestigious public high school, he decided to enter the legal profession and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He established a legal practice…

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In 1889, Donnelly wrote Caeser's Column, a utopian science fiction novel. The book is a cautionary tale set one hundred years in the future (1988). In Chapter XI, the protagonist learns that unbridled capitalism ruined the political and economic…

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For more information on this particular item, visit the document page for Images from "The Chronicle," September 1931 This item is a part of the Catholics and Race: The Federated Colored Catholics section. Return to Index of Documents

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For more information on this particular item, visit the document page for Images from "The Chronicle," September 1931 This item is a part of the Catholics and Race: The Federated Colored Catholics section. Return to Index of Documents

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An immigrant mother and her children, ca. 1990

Courtesy of ACUA

Catholic Charities USA Photographic Collection

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Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, 1955

Left: James Houghteling, U.S. commissioner of Immigration

Right: Edward J. Shaughnessy, INS official on testifying on behalf of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins

Courtesy of the…
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