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They Had No Voice : My Fight for Alabama's Forgotten Children.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montgomery : NewSouth Books, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (98 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781603062770
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: They Had No Voice : My Fight for Alabama's Forgotten ChildrenOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 - Learning the Limits of Social Theory -- 2 - Seeking Justice -- 3 - Into the Fray -- 4 - Money Trumps Ideals -- 5 - A Home for Every Child -- 6 - The Long Good-bye -- 7 - Starting Over -- 8 - Mt. Meigs, the Rest of the Story -- 9 - A Call for Help -- 10 - Hindsight -- About the Author.
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Denny Abbott first encountered the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs as a twenty-one-year-old probation officer for the Montgomery County Family Court. He would become so concerned about conditions for black juvenile offenders there-including hard labor, beatings, and rape-that he took the State of Alabama to court to win reforms. With the help of the U.S. Justice Department, Abbott won a resounding victory that brought change, although three years later he had to sue the state again. In They Had No Voice , Abbott details these battles and how his actions cost him his job and made him a pariah in his hometown, but resulted in better lives for Alabama's children. Abbott also tells of his later career as the first national director of the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center, where he helped focus attention on missing and exploited children and became widely recognized as an expert on children's issues.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 - Learning the Limits of Social Theory -- 2 - Seeking Justice -- 3 - Into the Fray -- 4 - Money Trumps Ideals -- 5 - A Home for Every Child -- 6 - The Long Good-bye -- 7 - Starting Over -- 8 - Mt. Meigs, the Rest of the Story -- 9 - A Call for Help -- 10 - Hindsight -- About the Author.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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