Black Boys Burning
The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School
On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, thirteen miles outside of Little Rock. Her son Lindsey had been confined there since January 14, after a judge for juveniles found him guilty of stealing from a neighborhood store owner. To her horror, Lindsey was not among the forty-eight boys who had clawed their way through the windows of the dormitory to safety. Instead, he was among the twenty-one boys between the ages of thirteen and seventeen who burned to death. Black Boys Burning pr…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4968-1270-4
- EAN: 9781496812704
- Produktnummer: 26341010
- Verlag: Faber & Faber
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'239 KB
- Auflage: EPub Single
- Abbildungen: 1 b&w illustration
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Grif Stockley
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