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The great Arizona orphan abduction / Linda Gordon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Arizona--Clifton--History--20th century.
- Catholic Church.
- Orphans--Arizona--Clifton--History--20th century.
- Orphans.
- Kidnapping--Arizona--Clifton--History--20th century.
- Kidnapping.
- Mexican Americans--Arizona--Clifton--History--20th century.
- Mexican Americans.
- Clifton (Ariz.)--Race relations.
- Clifton (Ariz.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (432 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town' Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. -- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. King copper
- Ch. 2. Mexicans come to the mines
- Ch. 3. The priest in the Mexican camp
- Ch. 4. The Mexican mothers and the Mexican town
- Ch. 5. The Anglo mothers and the company town
- Ch. 6. The strike
- Ch. 7. Vigilantism
- Ch. 8. Family and race.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674061712
- 0674061713
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