BLACK HISTORY MONTH: BUFFALO SOLDIERS

Do some basic research
Tell me something specific about these Buffalo Soldiers. You may choose to focus on one individual.
Give specific details.
Tell me what these men mean to you.

Here's Bob Marley's song to inspire you

Two Groups Pushing for Change: Populists and Progressives

OK!
Give  me one specific fact on how the Populists made America better.
Give me one fact on specific fact on how the Progressives made America better.
How will you make America better?
In other words, list one Populist achievement, one Progressice achievement and make one prediction of a future personal achievement.

THE MOLLY MAGUIRES

 

 

Read the lyrics and listen to the Song. Discuss the mood of the song. Discuss some of the specific lyrics. How does this song fit in to our understanding of the Gilded Age and the American Dream?

Make way for the Molly Maguires
They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men
Make way for the Molly Maguires
You'll never see the likes of them again

Down the mines no sunlight shines
Those pits they're black as hell
In modest style they do their time
It's Paddy's prison cell
And they curse the day they've travelled far
Then drown their tears with a jar

So make way for the Molly Maguires
They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men
Make way for the Molly Maguires
You'll never see the likes of them again

Backs will break and muscles ache
Down there there's no time to dream
Of fields and farms, of womans arms
Just dig that bloody seam
Though they drain their bodies underground
Who'll dare to push them around

So make way for the Molly Maguires
They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men
Make way for the Molly Maguires
You'll never see the likes of them again

So make way for the Molly Maguires
They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men
Make way for the Molly Maguires
You'll never see the likes of them again

Make way for the Molly Maguires
They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men
Make way for the Molly Maguires
You'll never see the likes of them again

Down the mines no sunlight shines
Those pits they're black as hell
In modest style they do their time
It's Paddy's prison cell
And they curse the day they've travelled far
Then drown their tears with a jar

So make way for the Molly Maguires
They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men
Make way for the Molly Maguires
You'll never see the likes of them again

Backs will break and muscles ache
Down there there's no time to dream
Of fields and farms, of womans arms
Just dig that bloody seam
Though they drain their bodies underground
Who'll dare to push them around

So make way for the Molly Maguires
They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men
Make way for the Molly Maguires
You'll never see the likes of them again

So make way for the Molly Maguires
They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men
Make way for the Molly Maguires
You'll never see the likes of them again

A REAL IRISH BALLAD AND LABOR SONG!