The Immigrant’s Day in Court.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First edition. Claghorn [1864-1938] was an author, sociologist, and faculty member at the New York School of Social Work from 1912 to 1932. She received her PhD from Yale, and initially began her work as assistant registrar and then registrar of New York’s Tenement House Department. Her scholarly and governmental work advocating for immigrants has garnered her the title of the “Progressive Era Paladin of Immigrant’s Rights,” and the historians Kistofer Allerfeldt and Jeremy Black have deemed the present work (Claghorn’s last) “the one significant contemporary study of the immigrant and the American legal system.”. Index. Some shelfwear to head/foot of spine. Otherwise, binding is in very good + condition. Original paper dj featuring publisher’s promotional copy. Toning and mild dust-soiling to jacket. Light chipping/paper loss at jacket edges, particularly at head/foot of spine and front flap fold. Pages bright and clean with mild toning to first and last free endpapers towards gutter. Overall, a very good + copy. Publisher’s dark blue cloth. Title stamped in gilt to front cover and spine. Twelvemo. [i-iv], v-xvi, [4], 546 pp. Item #17968
Johnson, Marianne and Fiorito, Luca, “Kate Holladay Claghorn: Progressive Era Paladin of Immigrants’ Rights” (January 15, 2024). From the dust jacket: “This volume, the ninth in the Americanization Studies, is the result of investigations in the experiences of the immigrant who finds it hard to adjust himself to our laws. The immigrant’s relations with our established American life are likely to be smooth and pleasant in proportion to his understanding of and compliance with our laws. Theories and hypothetical cases have no place in this study. The purpose of the book is to give a clear idea of the conditions as they actually exist — to follow the immigrant from the port of entry, through troubles that call for the intervention of the law, to see how the law helps him, what is done to adjust him to our laws, and what his reactions are in the way of friendliness to the country.”.
See NY Times obituary, March 24, 1938. Johnson, Marianne and Fiorito, Luca, “Kate Holladay Claghorn: Progressive Era Paladin of Immigrants’ Rights” (January 15, 2024).
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