Episode 6: Scallawags and Carpetbaggers

Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

02/21/23 • 41 min

Denny Abbott enlists the help of lawyer Ira Dement to sue the state of Alabama. What ensues is a years-long battle, multiple lawsuits, personal turmoil, but also...a glimmer of hope for the kids at Mt. Meigs.

Special thanks to Denny Abbott and Douglas Kalajian for the use of their book, They Had No Voice: My Fight for Alabama's Forgotten Children.

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02/21/23 • 41 min

Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children - Episode 6: Scallawags and Carpetbaggers

Transcript

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School of Humans. Howard Mandel, a Northern Jewish boy fresh out of law school, decided to move down to Montgomery, Alabama in nineteen sixty nine. I wanted to be in Montgomery because I wanted to be a civil rights lawyer, and that was the heart of racism in the South. Howard arrived in an Alabama still functioning in many ways as a renegade state, defying the Civil Rights Act, which had been passed five years prior. In most counties, there still

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