THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR
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THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR (ebook)

JACOB A. RIIS

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Working with a friend from the Health Department, Riis filled The Children of the Poor (1892) with statistical information about public health, education, and crime. He argued that teaching immigrant children about American democracy would help to make them productive citizens.

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