The great Arizona orphan abduction
Catholic church, united states, history
Social history, 20th century
Vigilantes
White people
Whites
Race discrimination
Mexican Americans
Kidnapping
Orphans
Race relations
Catholic Church
History
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 kidnap…
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