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Category : Morenci (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Souvenir of Morenci, Arizona
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Category : Morenci (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Souvenir of Morenci, Arizona
Author: Detroit Copper Mining Company
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Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Souvenir of the Clifton Morenci Copper Belt of Arizona
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Category : Clifton (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Clifton (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Views of the Clifton Morenci Copper Belt
Author: Albertype Co
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Category : Clifton (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Clifton (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Souvenir of the Observance of the Golden Jubilee [of] Holy Cross Parish, Morenci, Arizona. December 17, 1953
Author: Holy Cross Parish (Morenci, Ariz.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Pages : 40
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The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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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's 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. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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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's 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. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
Morenci, Arizona
Author: Mrs. E. M. Roscoe
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Category : Morenci (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Photographic Collections in the Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Arizona State University
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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History of Morenci, Arizona
Author: Roberta Watt
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Arizona Brags
Author: Oren Arnold
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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