John Gronbeck-Tedesco Publishes Operation Pedro Pan
Congratulations to John Gronbeck-Tedesco聽 (American Studies) whose new book (Potomac Books) was published in August 2022.
Operation Pedro Pan explores the extraordinary undertaking by the Miami Catholic Diocese, federal and state offices, child welfare agencies, and anti-Castro Cubans to bring more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied children to the United States during the Cold War. Operation Pedro Pan was the colloquial name for the Unaccompanied Cuban Children鈥檚 Program, which began under government largesse in February 1961. Children without immediate family support in the United States鈥攕ome 8,300 minors鈥攔eceived group and foster care through the Catholic Welfare Bureau and other religious, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations as young people were dispersed throughout the country.
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