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We carry their bones : the search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys / Erin Kimmerle.
Van Pelt - New Book Display HV9105.F72 F56 2022
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- Author/Creator:
- Kimmerle, Erin H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Florida School for Boys--History.
- Florida School for Boys.
- Kimmerle, Erin H.
- Reformatories--Florida--History.
- Reformatories.
- Imprisonment--Florida--History.
- Imprisonment.
- Inmates of institutions--Abuse of--Florida--History.
- Inmates of institutions.
- Forensic anthropology--Florida--Case studies.
- Forensic anthropology.
- Inmates of institutions--Abuse of.
- Florida.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
- Summary:
- Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.
- For over a century the Arthur G. Dozier Boys School in Florida was the scene of cruelty, abuse, and "mysterious" deaths. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school's management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions. When the institution shut down in 2011 Kimmerle, a forensic anthropologist, stepped in to locate the school's graveyard to determine the number of graves and who was buried there, hoping to reunite the boys with their families through forensic and DNA testing. Records suggested thirty-one boys were buried in unmarked graves in a remote field on the school's property; the real number was at least twice that. Kimmerle provides a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Opening The Earth
- ch. 2 New Light
- ch. 3 Graveyard
- ch. 4 The Battle Of Boot Hill
- ch. 5 "Satan Has His Seat"
- ch. 6 A Meeting With The Chief
- ch. 7 "Hell On Earth"
- ch. 8 "We Can't Forget What Happened In Jackson County"
- ch. 9 "Oftentimes, History Doesn't Include The Good Parts"
- ch. 10 "Thank You All For Your Good Work"
- ch. 11 Reconstruction
- ch. 12 Identification
- ch. 13 "It's Not Even Past"
- ch. 14 "Where Is He?"
- ch. 15 "The Unimaginable Happened At Dozier"
- ch. 16 "You Have The Truth On Your Side"
- ch. 17 What Remains.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780063030244
- 0063030241
- OCLC:
- 1331557745
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