Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
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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 af...
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- Episode 8: Searching for Justice
- Unreformed presents "5-4: Tanner v. United States."
- Episode 7: The Aftermath
- Episode 6: Scallawags and Carpetbaggers
- Episode 5: When Mary Met Denny
- Episode 4: The Runaways
- Episode 3: Cornelia's Dream
- Episode 2: The Arrival
- Episode 1: The Lucky Ones
- Introducing: Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children