In 1968, five black girls were picked up by police

after running away from a reform school in Mount Meg's Alabama.

I'm writer and reporter Josie Defi Rice,

and in a new podcast, I investigate the abuse

that thousands of black children suffered

at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

and how those five girls changed everything.

Listen to Unreformed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts.

When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again,

so I followed her into the train yard.

This is what it sounds like inside the box-top.

And into the city of the rails, there I found a surprising world so brutal and beautiful

that it changed me, but the rails do that to everyone.

There is another world out there, and if you want to play with the devil,

you're going to find them there in the rail yard.

I'm Denon Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us in the city of the rails.

Listen to City of the Rails on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts.

Or cityoftherails.com.

In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter,

flees Russia for her new home, America.

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