Smoke Signals from Samarcand: The 1931 Reform School Fire and Its Aftermath by Barbara Bennett

Smoke Signals from Samarcand: The 1931 Reform School Fire and Its Aftermath

Barbara Bennett

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In 1931 sixteen poor, white girls--all teenaged inmates at Samarcand Manor, officially named the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, in Samarcand, North Carolina--were accused of burning down two campus buildings in protest against living ...

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