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Smoke signals from Samarcand : the 1931 reform school fire and its aftermath

Title
  1. Smoke signals from Samarcand : the 1931 reform school fire and its aftermath / Barbara Bennett.
Published by
  1. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
  2. ©2018
Author
  1. Bennett, Barbara, 1959-

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Description
  1. 121 pages : illustrations, facsimile, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "In 1931, sixteen poor white teenage girls at Samarcand Training School for Girls in Moore County, North Carolina, were accused of burning down two buildings in protest against living conditions at the school. They were called incorrigible, troublesome, and vixens by the administration and the press, and they were put on trial for their lives. Their lawyer, who volunteered to defend the girls, was a newly licensed woman named Nell Battle Lewis, known most as a journalist who spoke for the voiceless in society and only the second woman lawyer to try a case in Raleigh. The time leading up to the sensational trial revealed the girls were victims of class, sex, and eugenics. Partly a retelling of the dramatic story and partly a treatise on southern society in the early twentieth century, Smoke signals from Samarcand tells a tale of the benighted South and the victims of that time and place"--
Subject
  1. Female juvenile delinquents
  2. Trials (Arson)
  3. Reformatories for women
  4. Poor girls > North Carolina > Social conditions > 20th century
  5. Lewis, Nell Battle, 1893-1956
  6. State Home and Industrial School for Girls (Samarcand, N.C.) History
  7. State Home and Industrial School for Girls (Samarcand, N.C.)
  8. Female juvenile delinquents > North Carolina > History > 20th century
  9. North Carolina
  10. Dust jackets (Binding)
  11. Trials (Arson) > North Carolina > History > 20th century
  12. History
  13. 1900-1999
  14. Reformatories for women > North Carolina > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  1. Dust jackets (Binding)
  2. History.
Contents
  1. Prologue: Fire -- The Samarcand sixteen -- The trial -- Epilogue: Repercussions.
Call number
  1. JFE 18-6752
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Bennett, Barbara, 1959- author.
Title
  1. Smoke signals from Samarcand : the 1931 reform school fire and its aftermath / Barbara Bennett.
Publisher
  1. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
Copyright date
  1. ©2018
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
Other form:
  1. Online version: Bennett, Barbara, 1959- Smoke signals from Samarcand. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018] 9781611178616 (DLC) 2017045422
LCCN
  1. 2017041484
ISBN
  1. 9781611178609 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  2. 1611178606 hardcover ; alkaline paper
Research call number
  1. JFE 18-6752
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