This sure conflicts with the story my politicians endlessly spew forth about AmeriKa.
"Graves reopened at Florida reform school site; Researchers seek clues on how boys sent there died" by Brendan Farrington | Associated Press, September 01, 2013
MARIANNA, Fla. — University of South Florida researchers began reopening graves Saturday at a former Panhandle reform school where horrific beatings have been reported, in hopes of identifying the boys and learning how they died.
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The digging and work at the site will continue at the former Dozier Boys School until Tuesday, with researchers hoping to unearth the remains of four to six boys before resuming at a later date, said Erin Kimmerle, the USF anthropologist leading the excavation.
After work began Saturday, relatives of one of the boys believed to be buried at the school had a private prayer time at the grave sites. The family has provided DNA in hopes of finding a match with Robert Stephens. School records show he was fatally stabbed by another inmate in 1937, but his family hopes to confirm how he actually died through the exhumation efforts.
If his remains are found, his family says they will be reburied in a family plot.
‘‘That will be a great sense of homecoming,’’ Tananarive Due said. The boy was Due’s great-uncle. She was at the site Saturday with her son, father, and husband, and said she hopes that other families will also be able to locate relatives buried there.
‘‘Their families never had a proper opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones. In a lot of cases children just disappeared,’’ said Due, who lives in Atlanta.
Former inmates at the reform school from the 1950s and 1960s have detailed horrific beatings in a small, white concrete block building at the facility. A group of survivors call themselves the White House Boys’ and five years ago they called for an investigation into the graves. In 2010, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement ended an investigation and said it could not substantiate or refute allegations that boys died at the hands of staff.
USF later began its own research and discovered even more graves than the state department had identified. USF has worked for months to secure a permit to exhume the remains, finally receiving permission from Governor Rick Scott and the state Cabinet after being rejected by Secretary of State Ken Detzner, who reports to Scott.
‘‘In these historic cases, it’s really about having an accurate record and finding out what happened and knowing the truth about what happened,’’ Kimmerle said of efforts at the school, which opened in 1900 and shut down two years ago for budgetary reasons.
A rarity for AmeriKan government and its mouthpiece media.
Kimmerle said the remains of about 50 people are in the graves. Some are marked with a plain white steel cross, and others have no markings.
Robert Straley, a spokesman for the White House Boys, said the school segregated white and black inmates and that the remains are located where black inmates were held. He suspects there is another white cemetery that hasn’t been discovered.
‘‘I think that there are at least 100 more bodies up there,’’ he said. ‘‘At some point they are going to find more bodies, I’m dead certain of that. There has to be a white graveyard on the white side.’’
Once again, the AmeriKan jewsmedia puts the focus on dead blacks before whites, but whatever. They are all unique individual souls whose lives were taken by the very government helping them.
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Related: Sunday Globe Special: State School Cemetery
Also see: Progress made in grave excavations
UPDATE: 2 graves exhumed at ex-school in Florida
Judging by the hits no one gives a shit.
