![]() ![]() ![]() No additional human remains found at Dozier School.Search for bodies will continue at Dozier School for Boys after initial test turns up nothing.Local authors tell a Dozier School story in 'Cottage C'.Tallahassee guests join FAMU's literary forum on Colson Whitehead's 'The Nickel Boys'.Now, he and other survivors want financial compensation to get the closure they need to move past their Dozier sentences. Monday, he sat and cried in the Florida Capitol rotunda after a press conference, recalling how he endured rapes and whippings from decades ago. Meticulously researched through school archives, previously sealed papers, and interviews with the surviving State Boys, this deft exposé is a powerful reminder of the terrifying consequences of unchecked power as well as an inspiring testament to the strength of the human spirit.Watch Video: White House Boys support SB482 compensation billĬecil Gardner, now 75, still remembers the suffering he endured at the Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed state-run juvenile detention facility in Marianna. It also covers their horrifying discovery many years later that they had been fed radioactive oatmeal in Cold War experiments - and the subsequent legal battle that ultimately won them a multimillion-dollar settlement. In the tradition of Erin Brockovich, it recounts the boys' dramatic struggle to demand their rights and secure their freedom. The State Boys Rebellion conveys the shocking truth about America's eugenic era through the experiences of a group of boys held at the Fernald State School in Massachusetts starting in the late 1940s. Under programs that ran into the 1970s, more than 250,000 children were separated from their families, although many of them were merely unwanted orphans, truants, or delinquents. In the early twentieth century, United States health officials used IQ tests to single out "feebleminded" children and force them into institutions where they were denied education, sterilized, drugged, and abused. ![]() A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the amazing story of how a group of imprisoned boys won their freedom, found justice, and survived one of the darkest and least-known episodes of American history. ![]()
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