Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty five, black girls dressed in oversized military
Speaker 1: fatigues were picked up by the police in Montgomery, Alabama.
Speaker 1: I was tired and scared and just didn't want to
Speaker 1: take it anymore. The girls had run away from a
Speaker 1: reform school called the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children,
Speaker 1: a place known as Mount Meg's, and they were determined
Speaker 1: to tell someone about the abuse they'd suffered there. Picture
Speaker 1: the worst environment for children that you possibly can I
Speaker 1: believe Mount made for pattern after sleep. It was a
Speaker 1: penal columny for children. That's exactly what it was. I
Speaker 1: didn't understand why I had to go through what I
Speaker 1: was going through, and for what he tells us, there
Speaker 1: is no escaped in them. One of the most violent
Speaker 1: versions that you would it would have and those character
Speaker 1: jud feeling in mont major reform jury. Mount Meg's was
Speaker 1: founded by the dot or of a slave as a
Speaker 1: safe haven for black children, but by the nineteen sixties
Speaker 1: it had turned into a nightmare. I'm writer and reporter
Speaker 1: Josie Duffie Rice, and for the past year I've been
Speaker 1: investigating what was happening at Mount Meg's in the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 1: at the height of the civil rights movement in the
Speaker 1: Deep South. And this is the story of how this
Speaker 1: reform school derailed the lives of thousands of black children
Speaker 1: in Alabama and what happened after those five girls found
Speaker 1: someone who was willing to blow the whistle. From I
Speaker 1: Heeart Media and School of Humans comes a new podcast, Unreformed,
Speaker 1: the story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children.
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