A review by senquezada29
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon

5.0

This was an absolutely fascinating and disgustingly racist piece of AZ history that won't ever be taught in schools. It's the story of a group of poor Mexican mineworkers in Globe/Miami, AZ who tried to do a good deed by opening their homes to care for orphaned Irish children from the Northeastern United States. Of course, the reaction of the town's white folks, which was to turn to mob violence and use the legal system to prevent what they saw as the horrific tragedy of colored people raising and loving white children as their own.