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Informationen zum Autor Darryl J. Gonzalez , PhD, is a federal employee in Washington, DC, and has worked in education for 20 years. Klappentext This book offers a meticulously researched, comprehensive chronology of the Congressional Page system, from the late 1700s to modern day.From the origins of the page system in 1774 to the period in the 1940s when Congress demonstrated an indifference towards the needs of providing the boys with supervised living arrangements, congressional pages have a storied past. It's a topic that can be amusing-for years, pages simply treated the Capitol as a their private playground to subject adults to their mischief-and sobering, as Congress continued to employ boys as young as eight years old, even after passing labor laws that prohibited it and was reluctant to provide supervised living arrangements for decades.Unlike many dry and lifeless books about Congressional history, The Children Who Ran For Congress: A History of Congressional Pages provides a lively and engaging look at the history of the page system, a topic that has largely been ignored. Based on a thorough investigation of historical documents and personal interviews, Darryl Gonzalez now tells the complete story of the young boys (and girls) who have served Congress for more than 200 years. Zusammenfassung This book offers a meticulously researched! comprehensive chronology of the Congressional Page system! from the late 1700s to modern day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Chapter One Overview Introduction Part One: The Written Records Part Two: Data Gathering Interviews Chapter Two The Ancestors of Today's Pages, 1774 to 1926 Introduction Part One: America's Founding Fathers, and Her Founding Boys Congressional Messengers before 1800 The First Senate Pages The First House Pages and the First Supreme Court Page Part Two: Who Pages Were Using Young Boys as Pages Becoming a Page Appointing Orphans as Pages Special Pages Part Three: The Unique Community of Pages Pages and Their Relationships with Members Page Mischief Part Four: The Attention Paid to Formal Schooling Chapter Three Congress Passively Delegates Control of Capitol Page School to Private Individuals, 1926 to 1942 Introduction Part One: Child Advocacy Laws Put Pressure on Congress Child Labor in the District of Columbia Compulsory Education in the District of Columbia Part Two: The Page System Adds a School, 1926 to 1931 Parents Hire a Private Tutor, 1926 Laupheimer and Butler Collaborate to Form a Page School, 1927 to 1929 Devitt Assumes Control of Capitol Page School, 1929 to 1931 Part Three: Another Chance Meeting Leads to Another Page School, 1931 to 1942 Kendall and McClintic Collaborate to Form a Page School, 1931 Kendall's Capitol Page School Grows, 1932 to 1942 Part Four: Kendall and the Roosevelt White House Part Five: Pages in the News, 1939 to 1940 Chapter Four Senator Burton Advocates for Pages, 1942 to 1949 Introduction Part One: Burton Visits Page School and Effects Change Part Two: Burton's Involvement Continues, 1942 to 1943 Part Three: The Little Congress and Alice Tuohy Part Four: The House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, October 1943 Part Five: Fallout from Tuohy's Letter, December 1943 to the Summer of 1944 Part Six: Setbacks for Kendall, 1944-1945 School Year Introduction President Roosevelt Dies; Truman Abandons Diplomatic School, April 1945 Anderson Attacks Kendall and Page School, May 1945 Congressional Hearings to Investigate Page School, June 1945 Part Seven: Pages Secure a Residence, and the 1945-1946 School Year Part Eight: Page School Goes from Private C...
