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We carry their bones, the search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys, Erin Kimmerle

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We carry their bones, the search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys, Erin Kimmerle

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

We carry their bones

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bibliography

Oclc number

1331557745

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Erin Kimmerle

Sub title

the search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys

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 familiesFor 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

Table Of Contents

Opening the earth -- New light -- Graveyard -- The Battle of Boot Hill -- "Satan has his seat" -- A meeting with the chief -- "Hell on Earth" -- "We can't forget... what happened in Jackson County" -- "Oftentimes, history doesn't include the good parts" -- "Thank you for all your good work" -- Reconstruction -- Identification -- "It's not even past" -- "Where is he?" -- "The unimaginable happened at Dozier" -- "You have the truth on your side" -- What remains

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Search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys

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