the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society Christie, Judy Pace 1956- creator author. Wingate, Lisa author. text nyu 2019 First edition. monographic eng

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xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. Wingate and Christie tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed, and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art-meets-life, long silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children's Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results. Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate. n-us-tn Tennessee Children's Home Society Corrupt practices History Adoption agencies Corrupt practices Tennessee History Family reunification Tennessee Case studies HV875.56.T2 C47 2019 362.73092/2768 9780593130148 2019034565 DLC 190814 20200122140450.0 1110886872 eng