Erin Kimmerle

Another sad mark in US history. The Dozier School for Boys was a place where alleged juvenile delinquents were sent to reform. However, reform was not what the school was about. It was about abuse, torture, cover ups, and slavery. Though black children were the most prevalent "students" there, white children were also in residence. Most of the children that died at the hands of schoolmasters were buried in unmarked graves on the site. Erin Kimmerle, an anthropologist who specializes in forensics, made it her mission to send these children home to their families. A task that was not easy due to inaccurate and/or missing data and the difficult job of finding the graves. This was highly informational and emotional. I would recommend it.… (altro)

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This book was very interesting. It is amazing how hard it was just to get the okay to find these lost boys and return them to their families who loved them and missed them. History is very seldom full of nothing but good stuff, with every good thing there is always bad and a lot of ugly. The good is always the outcome of learning from the ugly stuff. Hopefully the ugly that this book exposed will teach us how to be good to the young people that end up in the custody of any state for whatever reason. My thoughts go to the boys, their families and the people who worked so hard to get them home.
I enjoyed this book and learned a lot about the hard work it takes to bring home lost children.… (altro)

I received this book from a Goodreads Giveaway

This book was very interesting. It is amazing how hard it was just to get the okay to find these lost boys and return them to their families who loved them and missed them. History is very seldom full of nothing but good stuff, with every good thing there is always bad and a lot of ugly. The good is always the outcome of learning from the ugly stuff. Hopefully the ugly that this book exposed will teach us how to be good to the young people that end up in the custody of any state for whatever reason. My thoughts go to the boys, their families and the people who worked so hard to get them home.
I enjoyed this book and learned a lot about the hard work it takes to bring home lost children.… (altro)

This incredible story documents in a most amazing way the horror that was the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. The school operated from Jan. 1, 1900 until June 30, 2011, During that time scores of boys, some as young as five, were tortured and some killed. Their offenses for being sent to the school could be as minor as smoking and truancy. The author, Erin Kimmerle, is a forensic anthropologist from the University of South Florida. It was her meticulous work, along with her graduate students’ and others’, that uncovered many of the long forgotten remains of the boys, Black and white, who were buried on the grounds of the school campus. Many of the local residents not only did not support Kimmerle’s work, many were openly hostile, wanting to continue to sweep the school’s history and the community’s complicity under the rug, much like German citizens of World War II with the Nazis atrocities. This is an important book, one that everyone should read. It is a nonfiction account of what Colson Whitehead revealed in his best selling novel “The Nickel Boys.” One mention about some of the negative reviews here: many of the reviewers seem to be bothered by the amount of personal information about the author included in the book. I found this information interesting and helpful in understanding her role in the story and her dedication to the project. I wonder if some of these were written by disgruntled members of the Marianna, Florida, community.… (altro)