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News Brief: 'Tough Love' Used to Justify Abusing Children and Surplus Black Population in Alabama

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Unreformed the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

The Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children became a center of torture and abuse ostensibly for their own good. The institution began as like this almost too good place for black kids, right? Like people in the community were like, we can't send law breaking Negro juveniles to a place like this. And they certainly weren't coddled even at the very beginning when it was run by an African-American woman.

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