Pierce, Sarah, [>], [>], [>]
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), [>]
Poor children
compulsory education for, [>]
control of, [>]
“deserving” vs. “undeserving,” [>]
efforts to help, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
health of, [>]–[>]
and indenture system, [>]
innocence of, [>]–[>]
needs of, [>]–[>], [>]
and orphan trains, [>]
placement of, [>]–[>]
as potential benefit, [>]
vitality of, [>]–[>]
Poor people
miserable conditions of, [>]–[>]
resistance of, [>]–[>]
See also Poverty
Porter, Lucy, [>]
See also Brace, Lucy Porter
Potter, Howard, [>], [>]
Poverty, and criminality, [>], [>]–[>]
See also Poor people
Pratt, Richard Henry, [>]
Presbyterians, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Priests, network of, [>]–[>]
Prisons, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and foster care, [>]
See also Penitentiaries
Probation officers, [>]
Prostitution, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and boys, [>]
Protestants, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Proust, Marcel, [>]
Prudential Co., [>]
Puritans, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and God, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Races of the Old World, The (Brace), [>]–[>], [>]
Racism, [>]–[>], [>]
Ragged Dick (Alger), [>]–[>]
Ralph, Georgia G., [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Randall’s Island, [>], [>], [>]
See also Infant’s Hospital; New York House of Refuge
Rauhe Haus (Rough House)(Germany), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Rebiccio (priest), [>]
Rebirth, [>]–[>]
Reeve, Tapping, [>]
Reid, Caprice, [>]–[>], [>]
“Remember the Neediest” campaign, [>]
Remmer, Victor, [>]
Republic (newspaper), [>]
Reynolds, H. D. (Harry), [>]–[>]
Reynolds-Alaska Development Co., [>]–[>]
Richards, James, [>]
Riley, James Whitcomb, [>], [>]
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, [>]
Robinson, John, [>], [>]
Rochester Advertiser, [>]
Rockefeller, John D., [>]
Roman Catholics. See Catholics
Roman Empire, [>]
Romanticism, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, [>], [>]
Roosevelt, Theodore Jr., [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Roosevelt, Theodore Sr., [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Roosevelt family, [>]
Roosevelt Island. See Blackwell’s Island
Rumania, [>]
Runaways, [>], [>]
Rural placement, [>]–[>], [>]
Russel, William C., [>]
Russell Sage Foundation, Department of Child Helping, [>]
Russia, [>], [>]–[>]
Russians, in Alaska, [>]
Saint Christopher’s Home, [>]
Saint John’s Park School, [>]
Saint Luke’s Mission, [>]
Sanborn, Franklin B., [>]
Sanger, Dr. William W., [>], [>], [>]–[>]
SCAA. See State Charities Aid Association
Schlegel, A., [>]–[>]
Schuyler, Louisa Lee, [>], [>]
Schuyler family, [>]
Schwab, Charles, [>]
Scoppetta, Nicholas, [>]–[>]
Scott, Richard H., [>]
Scott, Sir Walter, [>]
Semites, [>]
Sermons on Theism (Parker), [>]
Settlement house movement, [>]–[>]
Sexual abuse, [>], [>], [>]
Sexuality
of boys, [>]–[>]
of girls, [>]–[>]
Shakespeare, William, [>], [>]
Shaugnessey, Thomas J., [>]–[>]
Sherman, Mr. (official), [>]
Sigourney, Lydia H., [>], [>], [>], [>]
Simpson, Peter, [>]
Single mothers, [>]
Sing Sing prison, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, 171–[>], [>]–[>]
Sitka (Alaska), [>]–[>], [>]
Sitka Sawmill Co., [>]
Sitka Trading Co., [>]
Sitka Training Institute, [>], [>], [>]
Sitting Bull, [>]
Six-Penny Savings Bank, [>]–[>]
Slavery, [>], [>]
and Civil War, [>]–[>]
and orphan trains, [>], [>]
and racism, [>], [>]
in South, [>]–[>]
Tlingit, [>]
Smack (John) (vagrant child), [>]–[>], [>]
Smith, Mrs. C. K., [>], [>]
Smith, E. P., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Social attitudes, evolution of, [>], [>]
Social Security Act of 1935, [>]
Social work
difficulties of, [>]
professionalization of, [>]
as public policy, [>]
as religious enterprise, [>]
Society
and encouragement vs. correction, [>]–[>]
principles for, [>]
Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children, [>]
“Society for the Suppression of Vice and the Promotion of Good Morals,” [>]
Sociopaths, [>]
Sodomy, [>]
“Soup Kitchen Movement,” [>]
Spain, [>]
Spanish-American War, [>], [>]
Spock, Dr. Benjamin, [>]
State Charities Aid Association (SCAA), [>]
Stern, Lotte, [>], [>], [>]
testimony of, [>]–[>]
Stewart, Albert, [>]–[>], [>]
Stoll, W. R., [>], [>]–[>]
Stonewall Riot of 1969, [>]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Street children
newsboys as, [>]
seen as criminals, [>]–[>]
shortages of service for, [>]
suffering of, [>]–[>]
Strong, George Templeton, [>]
Sunday meetings, [>]–[>], [>]
for boys, [>]–[>]
Sunday school, [>], [>], [>]
Supreme Court (U.S.), [>]
Sweden, [>]
Swedenborg, Emanuel, [>]
Taggart, Frank D., [>], [>]
Taylor, Dr., [>]
Technological innovations, and placement organizations, [>]
Teenagers, [>], [>]
Texas, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Thomson, Marguerite, [>]–[>], [>]
Titus (Tice), Mr. (agent), [>]–[>]
Townsend, Rev. C. C., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Toynbee Hall (London), [>]
Tracy, C. C., [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Trask, Charles, [>]
Trott, Mr. E., [>] [>]
Trott, Mrs. E., [>], [>], [>]
Truancy Law of 1853, [>]
Turkey, [>], [>]
Tweed, William (Boss), [>]
“Twelve Months to Permanency Program,” [>]
Ujhazy, Laszlo, [>], [>]
“Unconscious Influence” (Bushnell), [>]–[>]
Union Theological Seminary, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Unitarians, [>], [>]
United States
almshouses in, [>]
citizens of, [>]
constitution, [>]
Department of the Interior, [>]
education policy, [>]–[>]
family life in, [>]
“formalism” in, [>]
f
ulfilling promise of, [>]–[>]
homosexuality in, [>]–[>], [>]
materialism in, [>]
nurses’ training in, [>]
poor people in, [>]
Sanitary Commission, [>], [>]
social organization in, [>]–[>]
in Spanish-American War, [>]
struggle for independence in, [>]–[>]
vagrant children in, [>]–[>]
See also America; Congress; Supreme Court
Unknown God, The (Brace), [>], [>], [>], [>]
Vagrancy, male vs. female, [>]
Vagrant children
in Germany, [>]–[>]
as storytellers, [>]–[>]
swelling numbers of, [>], [>]–[>]
Van Arsdale, Martin Van Buren, [>]
Vaux, Calvert, [>]
Vedder, C. P., [>]
Victorians
and family, [>]–[>]
and motherhood, [>]–[>]
and poor children, [>]–[>]
repression of, [>]–[>]
taboos of, [>]
Virgil (poet), [>]
Virginia, [>]
Virginity, [>]–[>]
Voice Among the Newsboys, A (Morrow), [>]–[>]
Wage labor, [>]–[>]
Wagner, Michael, [>]
Wald, Lillian, [>]
Wall Street Journal, [>]
Warren, Francis E., [>]
Watson, Etta, [>]
Waveland Collegiate Institute, [>]
WCTU. See Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Welfare. See Child welfare
West, James E., [>]
Westchester County poorhouse, [>]
Wheeler, Etta Angell, [>]–[>]
White House Conference on Dependent Children, [>]–[>], [>]
Whites, and foster care, [>]
Whitford, Amos T., [>]
Wichern, John Hinrich, [>]
Widows’ pensions, [>]
Wilde, Oscar, [>], [>]
Williams, John Earl, [>], [>], [>]
Wilson, Edmund, [>]
Wilson, Mary Ellen, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Wilson, Robert, [>]
Wisconsin, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Wise, Louise, [>]
Women
“fallen,” [>], [>], [>], [>]
help for, [>]
and marriage, [>]
See also Motherhood; Prostitution; Single mothers
Women’s Central Relief Association, [>]
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), [>], [>], [>]
Wordsworth, William, [>]
Workshops, [>]
Wounded Knee massacre, [>]
Wyoming, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Wyoming Stock Growers Association, [>]
Yukon Gold Rush, [>]
“Zigzags of a New York Street-boy” (Brady), [>]–[>]
About the Author
STEPHEN O’CONNOR is the author of Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, an account of his years teaching creative writing at an inner-city school in New York. Katha Pollitt called it a “wonderful, heartbreaking, enraging book.” O’Connor is also the author of Rescue, a collection of short fiction. An adjunct professor in creative writing at Lehman College, he also teaches at the New School.
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