The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction - Gordon, Linda
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This recipient of the 1999 Bancroft Prize for American History presents the story of 40 Irish orphans who were transported from New York to Arizona in 1904 by nuns to be placed with Mexican Catholic families, and of the vigilante squad, furious at the "interracial transgression", who kidnapped the children. 36 halftones.

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This recipient of the 1999 Bancroft Prize for American History presents the story of 40 Irish orphans who were transported from New York to Arizona in 1904 by nuns to be placed with Mexican Catholic families, and of the vigilante squad, furious at the "interracial transgression", who kidnapped the children. 36 halftones.
Autorenporträt
Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of the now-classic history of birth control in America, Woman¿s Body, Woman¿s Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of the American Historical Association¿s Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women¿s history.