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Unreformed
the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
In 1968, police arrested five Black girls dressed in oversized military fatigues in Montgomery. The girls were runaways, escaping from a state-run reform school called the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children in Mount Meigs, Alabama. The girls were determined to tell someone about the abuse they’d suffered there: physical and sexual violence, unlivable facilities, and grueling labor in the fields surrounding the school. It was, as several former students called it, a slave camp.
UNREFORMED is the story of how this reform school derailed the lives of thousands of Black...
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4.8 stars from 1,085 ratings
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“Good story but the narrator is really off pace. She crawls at times, which drives me crazy.”
Tfayter via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/21/23
Trauma told with respect
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“This story needs to be told. In hopes that we make real reforms for our youth. If you know better do better.”
4rah via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/21/23
Chain of witness
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“Harrowing but brilliant reporting and story telling. It is so important to bear witness (by listening) to what these children suffered and, in some form, continue to suffer. Racism and racial violence is a true and horrifying part of American history. It may be less blatant and less extreme...”Read full review »
SBJlistens via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/05/23
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In the final episode, we look at where Lonnie, Mary, Johnny, Jennie, Johnny Mack, and Denny are fifty years after leaving Mt. Meigs. We also look at how juvenile justice in America has evolved and how other juvenile reform schools that mistreated their students have atoned for their wrongs. And...
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