The Dozier School for Boys
Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past
by Elizabeth A. Murray, PhD
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Pub Date Sep 03 2019 | Archive Date Oct 01 2019
Lerner Publishing Group | Twenty-First Century Books ™
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Get the true story behind the time and place that inspired The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where—rather than reforming the children in their care—school officials tortured, raped, and killed them. Opened in 1900, the school closed in 2011 after a Department of Justice investigation substantiated allegations of routine beatings and killings made by about 100 survivors. Thus far, forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle and her team from the University of South Florida have uncovered fifty-five sets of human remains. Follow this story of institutional abuse, the brave survivors who spoke their truth, and the scientists and others who brought it to light.
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781541519787 |
| PRICE | $37.32 (USD) |
| PAGES | 120 |
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Mallory Anne-Marie H, Reviewer
Reading this non-fiction narative of the horrible long-lived "reform school" in Northern Florida once known as the Florida Industrial School was a stomach-churning experience, rendered all the more horrifying knowing that this wasn't a fictional work of extreme horror or "splatterpunk." This was 111 years of utter horror, humiliation, degradation, slavery, and rape, inflicted on children. It's impossible not to weep copious tears while reading, despite the author's calm and factual narrative.
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