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The Molly Maguires were a 19th-century secret society of Irish-American coal miners in Pennsylvania who used violence to combat harsh working conditions and exploitation by mine owners. Borrowing their name from an earlier Irish anti-landlord group, the miners organized through the Ancient Order of Hibernians. When the mine owners hired Pinkerton detectives to infiltrate the group, their testimony led to the conviction and hanging of several men, a series of events that reduced the society's pow
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