Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Dozier School for Boys Bodies Exhumed -- 24 More than State of Floirda Records Indicated -- Were There Murders THere?

It happened in America, to Americans, near the Alabama-Georgia border.
In Marianna, Florida, where the "Dozier School for Boys" tortured children under color of state law, 1900-2011.
Today's news brings word that some 55 bodies were exhumed at the site of the former Dozier School, a State of Florida jurvenile prison where children were raped, beaten and murdered.
State of Florida records only reflected 31 deaths at Dozier.
Thus, given the discrepancy, might there have been at least 24 murders?
Or were there more?
Most of the as-yet unnamed victims of the Dozier School for Boys were reportedly African-Americans.
Samuel White and Willie Carl Singleton were just two of the local African-American victims of the Dozier School for Boys. They were scarred for life.
Messrs. White and Singleon were two of the "St. Augustine Four" -- four school childen who were sent to juvenile prison by the local KKK establishment here in St. Augustine. The two girls (Ms. Joe Ann Anderson and Ms. Aubrey Nell Edwards) went to a different juvenile prison, near Ocala. I once had the honor of shaking Ms. Edwards' hand -- we were introduced by my late mentor, KKK-buster Stetson Kennedy.
The two boys would never talk about their experiences.
They are both deceased.
Why were the St. Augustine Four ordered sent to Florida juvenile prisons?
For walking into the Woolworth's 5 & 10 cent store on King Street and ordering hamburgers and soft drinks. St. Augustine was in the throes of corruption and Jim Crow segregation.
Thanks to the University of South Florida for the forensic work on the Dozier School for Boys deaths.
We shall overcome.

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