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Angel of Mercy

By Iron Horse Theatre Company (other events)

7 Dates Through Oct 25, 2025
 
ABOUT ABOUT

This is a story of Fannie Sellins, one of the best union organizers in the early 20th century. After her husband’s death, Fannie worked in a garment factory to support her four children. She helped to organize the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, where she became a negotiator for 400 women locked out of the garment factory. Afterward, she worked for the mine workers union. She distributed clothing and food to starving women and babies, assisted poverty-stricken mothers, and tended to the sick and dying. Despite all the good she was doing in her community; she was arrested for defying an anti-union injunction. After her release, Sellins joined the staff of the UMWA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was assigned to the Allegheny River Valley district to direct picketing by striking miners at Allegheny Coal and Coke Company. When she witnessed a posse of the Coal and Iron Police beating a picketing miner, she intervened to protect him and the miner’s children that were on the scene. Don’t miss this compelling and true story about a local superwoman.