Black Boys Burning: The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1496834526
ISBN13:9781496834522
Release Date:March 2021
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Length:212 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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