Episode from the podcastUnreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

Vote now! UNREFORMED Nominated For Webby Award

BonusReleased Tuesday, 9th April 2024

Good episode? Give it some love!

Vote now! UNREFORMED Nominated For Webby Award

Vote now! UNREFORMED Nominated For Webby Award

BonusTuesday, 9th April 2024

Good episode? Give it some love!

Rate Episode

Podchaser Pro

Episode Creators & Guests

List Search Input

Search Creators...

Add Creators

Rate

Get this podcast via API

From The Podcast

Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

In 1968, police arrested five Black girls dressed in oversized military fatigues in Montgomery. The girls were runaways, escaping from a state-run reform school called the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children in Mount Meigs, Alabama. The girls were determined to tell someone about the abuse they’d suffered there: physical and sexual violence, unlivable facilities, and grueling labor in the fields surrounding the school. It was, as several former students called it, a slave camp.Peabody-nominated UNREFORMED is the story of how this reform school derailed the lives of thousands of Black children in Alabama for decades and what happened after those five girls found someone willing to blow the whistle. Host Josie Duffy Rice investigates the history of the school at the tail end of the Civil Rights movement in Alabama and speaks to former students who are still haunted by their experience but had the will to survive.

Join Podchaser to...

Rate podcasts and episodes
Follow podcasts and creators
Create podcast and episode lists
& much more

Episode Tags

Do you host or manage this podcast?
Claim and edit this page to your liking.

,

Unlock more with Podchaser Pro

Audience Insights

Contact Information

Demographics

Charts

Sponsor History

and More!

Pro Features

Resources
Help Center
Blog
API

Podchaser is the ultimate destination for podcast data, search, and discovery. Learn More