Summary of Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones

Download or read book Summary of Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-07T22:59:00Z with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was brought in to help find the burial sites of the boys who had died at the reform school. I had no idea how difficult this would be. #2 I met with Glen Varnadoe, a man who believed his uncle was buried on the Dozier property. He had spent forty years working for a chemical company in Central Florida, and he was well-off. He hired a lawyer to stop the sale of the land. #3 We learned that the school had buried a number of boys who had died there, possibly nineteen more than what was reported. The state department of law enforcement said they knew how all the boys had died: some killed in a fire, others in a flu epidemic, and nothing criminal occurred. #4 We found that nearly 70 percent of the boys buried at Dozier were African American. The state’s investigation identified only 31 burials on-site, but we now had records for 45 boys.