A gripping story of the inhumanity suffered by black children in a reform school in Mississippi. The tale is well told by a great story teller but the atrocities dealt out to these poor kids are inhumane. The story itself is fiction based on fact. The stories are truisms that took place elsewhere in the South but you will never forget them and the unfortunates who endured this hell on earth until it often overcame them. Many unmarked graves with bones rising showing manifestations of unspeakable brutality. The horrors of thinking of 5 and 6 year old children placed there when no one is around to care for them or other total innocents being subjected to this horror show of rape. It is almost too hard to read and think about and yet even living in this cesspool there were glimmers of hope. A book you won't soon forget about children enduring the legal system during the pre-Civil Rights days in the old south. So well written it could be a classic, so shocking you won't be able to forget it. I recommend this book, it is a teaching tool, it is an enlightening tool, it offers examples on how NOT to treat your fellow man.
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