Gordon, Linda

Chronicles the life of photographer Dorothea Lange, discussing childhood battle with polio, introduction to photography, involvement in San Francisco's bohemian artistic world, marriage to Maynard Dixon, images of some of America's most disadvantaged citizens, and other related topics.

Examines the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s as an organization of white, Protestant, native-born citizens who combined Christian values with racial bigotry to become a major political force.

Chronicles the events that occurred in Arizona in 1904, when New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote mining camp to be placed with Catholic, Mexican families, and the town's Anglos formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and priest.

Chronicles the life of photographer Dorothea Lange, discussing childhood battle with polio, introduction to photography, involvement in San Francisco's bohemian artistic world, marriage to Maynard Dixon, images of some of America's most disadvantaged citizens, and other related topics.