Short Creek Polygamy Raid

Short Creek raid, Arizona, 1953. As arraignments of the adults drag on in Short Creek’s schoolhouse, transformed by the authorities into a temporary site for pre-trial hearings, a group of children and women wait in the schoolyard with state police guarding them.

A group of children and women sit and wait under a tree while state policemen guard them in a schoolyard at a Mormon settlement during the Short Creek Polygamy Raid, Short Creek (now Colorado City), Arizona, July 26, 1953. State officials arrested over 100 men on polygamy charges but photos of the raid, especially crying children, caused a backlash against the secular authorities. (Photo by Loomis Dean/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)