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American child trafficker (1891–1950)
Georgia Tann
Tann in 1947
Born
Beulah George Tann
(1891-07-18)July 18, 1891
Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S.
Died
September 15, 1950(1950-09-15) (aged 59)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Resting place
Hickory, Mississippi, U.S.
Alma mater
Columbia University Martha Washington College
Occupation
Social worker
Organization
Tennessee Children's Home Society
Partner(s)
Ann Atwood Hollinsworth[1]
Comments
Died before arrest
Details
Victims
5,000 estimated children stolen; at least 19 killed due to abuse
Span of crimes
1924–1950
Country
United States
State(s)
Tennessee, Mississippi
Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950) was an American social worker and child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s to 1950. Young children were kidnapped and then sold to wealthy families, abused, or—in some instances—murdered. A state investigation into numerous cases of adoption fraud led to the institution's closure in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public.
^"Ann Attwood to Marry Capt. George A Hollingsworth". The Greenwood Commonwealth. Greenwood, Mississippi: newspapers.com. March 14, 1925. p. 4. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
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investigated by the state of Tennessee for using her judgeship to aid GeorgiaTann's ongoing adoption fraud operation conducted under the auspices of the...
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adoption, arranged by the Tennessee Children's Home Society as part of GeorgiaTann's baby-kidnapping operation, his adoptive father was completing a residency...
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through the Tennessee Children's Home Society in an adoption arranged by GeorgiaTann) and Richard Powell, Jr., born December 24, 1950. In the mid 1950s, Allyson...
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orphanage at the age of 3. He authored Rough Passage (1983). Kirwan House GeorgiaTann Belvedere Protestant Children's Orphanage Westbank Orphanage PACT (Protestant...
Tennessee. Before either parent was able to see the baby, he was stolen by GeorgiaTann's baby theft ring that worked at the hospital. In June 1943, Tapia returned...
sentenced to 27 years to life. In 1940s Memphis, Tennessee, 49-year-old GeorgiaTann, hailed as "the mother of modern adoption", adopted babies out to Hollywood...
involving the coercion of birth parents and abuse of orphans (notably at GeorgiaTann's Tennessee Children's Home Society). In Romania, a decree was established...
to women institutionalized at Western State sent to child trafficker GeorgiaTann's Tennessee Children's Home Society. Many of the patients who died at...
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biographies of black women who helped change America. In 2004, along with Wesley Tann, she was honored by the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Fashion Arts...
iron-hulled paddle gunboat, USS Michigan, to the Great Lakes in 1844. Von der Tann became the first propeller-driven gunboat in the world. Conradi shipyards...
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