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Orphan Trains: Forgotten Kids, New Beginnings | Lake Charles News
In the 1850s, a bold social experiment unfolded: the Orphan Train Movement, which sent over 135,000 kids from overcrowded New York to rural families across America. Spearheaded by minister Charles Loring Brace and Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon, it was a desperate bid to give street kids a chance at a better life—often through Catholic networks that placed them in places like Louisiana, even letting families request hair color in exchange for raising kids Catholic. Though some families embraced them warmly, others struggled with language and culture gaps, and many kids worked for room and board…
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