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Margo Cowan is a social worker in Tucson who, starting in the late 1970s, gets involved in activism to help immigrants. Although Cowan is still in her mid-20s, in many ways she is an old-school activist, drawing a connection between her past working with labor leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and the newly emerging field of immigration activism.
Margo Cowan Quotes in Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
The Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here quotes below are all either spoken by Margo Cowan or refer to Margo Cowan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6 Quotes
In Tucson, a network of supporters was creating a movement—it lacked a name but already had a cast. One of the main characters was John Fife, a forty-year-old pastor with a salt-and-pepper beard and a penchant for cowboy boots and turquoise belt buckles.
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Margo Cowan Character Timeline in Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
The timeline below shows where the character Margo Cowan appears in Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4
In April 1976, Margo Cowan is a 26-year-old head of a social services organization in Tucson who gets fired from...
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...By the time Border Patrol finds them two days later, only half are still alive. Cowan hears about the survivors being taken to a local hospital. Lupe Castillo, a graduate student...
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Chapter 6
In summer and fall 1980, Cowan and Castillo struggle to find the recent Salvadoran migrants in Tucson because the Immigration and...
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Although the INS officially grants asylum, the State Department oversees the whole process. Cowan and Castillo learn that the system is heavily backed up and that it’s possible to...
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Chapter 7
...who usually work in pairs. This fear of discovery becomes real in mid-December 1981 when Cowan gets visited by an attorney for the INS who claims to know what she is...
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Chapter 14
...sends out a memo titled “El Salvadorian Underground Railroad” about how people like Corbett and Cowan are not religious figures but political combatants who are winning over the media. Rayburn enlists...
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