New York's Newsboys

New York''s Newsboys is a lively historical account of Charles Loring Brace''s founding and development of the Children''s Aid Society to combat a newly emerging social problem, youth homelessness, during the nineteenth century. Poor children slept on the docks, pilfered, and peddled cheap wares to survive, activities which frequently landed them in prison-like juvenile asylums. Brace offered a ra...