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Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

Before and after : the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

Book 2019

"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. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours bro...