We Carry Their Bones : The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys / Erin Kimmerle
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: x, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780063030244; 0063030241Other title: Search for justice at the Dozier School for BoysSubject(s): Kimmerle, Erin H | Florida School for Boys -- History | Reformatories -- Florida -- History | Imprisonment -- Florida -- History | Inmates of institutions -- Abuse of -- Florida -- History | Forensic anthropology -- Florida -- Case studiesDDC classification: 365/.420975993 LOC classification: HV9105.F72 | F56 2022| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | 365.42 KIMM (Browse shelf) | Available | 63973 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index
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
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
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