Socorros Mutuos Muradanos

Society founded in 1927 in New York and Newark.

Society founded in 1927, with buildings in Cherry Street in New York, and 84th Bruen Street in Newark. Its aim was to build a social center in Muros. During Castelao’s stay in New York, the Newark branch organised an event to raise funds for the orphans of the Republic, on 15/10/1938 in Saint Georges’s Hall, where Castelao and Luis Soto gave a speech (Sources: “Unha achega á emigración galega a Nova York” (2008) by Nancy Pérez Rey; El asociacionismo en la emigración española a América (2008) edited by Juan Andrés Blanco Rodríguez; Miguel Anxo Seixas Seoane, Castelao. Construtor da nación, tomo II (1931-1939) (2020)).