Introducing Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Hi, SYMIHC fans! The podcast, Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, follows the stories behind the little-known history of the Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meig’s, a horrific penal institution for children who were accused of infractions as minor as truancy.
About Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children: In 1968, five Black girls ran away from a reform school in Mount Meigs, Alabama and revealed that it was a modern-day slave camp.
We relive the narrative of five brave women who dared to cross the Color Line in the Jim Crow South to help ignite a federal investigation. We explore the personal histories of former Mt. Meig’s students and whistle blowers. Through interviews with historians, civil rights advocates and as many living survivors as possible, we address the circumstances at Mt. Meigs as a means to reveal and acknowledge this piece of US History.
Listen to Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!
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| 0:00.0 | In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, |
| 0:03.5 | flees Russia for her new home, America. |
| 0:06.6 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:08.1 | I am very happy to be here. |
| 0:10.9 | That story alone is worthy of a podcast, |
| 0:13.6 | but Spedlana's Spedlana is about what comes next, |
| 0:16.9 | and it's the craziest story I've ever heard. |
| 0:19.9 | It has KGB agents, a Frank Lloyd Wright commune, |
| 0:23.1 | weird sex stuff, three Olga's two Spedlana's, |
| 0:26.0 | and one neurotic gay playwright. |
| 0:27.8 | That's me. |
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| 0:35.4 | If you could completely remove one phrase |
| 0:37.9 | from your vocabulary, which phrase would you choose? |
| 0:41.4 | Um, I don't know. |
| 0:43.1 | Correct answer! |
| 0:44.6 | No, I mean, I don't know which phrase. |
| 0:46.8 | And the best way to banish I don't know from your life |
| 0:49.5 | is by cramming your brain full of stuff you should know. |
| 0:52.5 | Join your host, Josh and Chuck, |
| 0:54.3 | on the super popular podcast, |
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