The Mom’s Choice Awards® Names Call Me Kate: Meeting the Molly Maguires Among Best In Family-Friendly Products
The Mom's Choice Awards® has named Call Me Kate: Meeting the Molly Maguires by author Molly Roe among the best in family-friendly media, products and services.
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Call Me Kate is suitable for readers from eleven to adult. The story is dramatic and adventuresome, yet expressive of daily life in the patches of the hard coal region during the Civil War era. This novel will appeal to readers of the Dear America series, as well as more mature readers who will enjoy the story’s rich context and drama.
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I reviewed this book last year and found it a good book and very informative about this era. I learnt alot about history I didn't know. Congrats to Molly Roe
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Thanks Jenny - we appreciate it!
Call Me Kate is a mistreatment of a rich and proud history.
Molly Roe’s story makes coal miners who were trying to form unions into the bad guys. But these are the very men praised by former governor of Pennsylvania, Milton Shapp, as "men we can be proud of" when, in 1979, he granted a posthumous pardon to the alleged "leader" of the alleged Molly Maguires, Jack Kehoe.
Kehoe and 19 others, all prominent in the immigrant community, had been convicted of murder in an unfair trial and executed in 1878, part of a sustained effort by coal barons to intimidate and to break unions.
A hundred years later, when the case was reopened by the State Pennsylvania, court procedures and events surrounding the trial were found to be so unjust that the Board of Pardons recommended pardoning Kehoe, the Kehoes having been the only family to have asked the state for an exoneration. But both the governor's pardon and his words at the time make it clear his action was intended to set the record straight, and exonerate other coal miners similarly treated by coal owners of the day.
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