Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement

by Miriam Davidson

Book Overview

The death of twenty-one Salvadoran refugees in the Arizona desert in 1980 made many Americans aware for the first time that people were struggling--and dying--to find political asylum in the United States. Tucsonan Jim Corbett first encountered the problem while attempting to help a hitchhiking refugee. What came of that act of altruism was a movement that spread across the country, challenged the federal government, and brought the refugee problem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816510342
• ISBN13: 9780816510344
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"