Woman measuring a girl for clothes at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children in Mount Meigs, Alabama.
New dresses are laid out in a row behind them. This image was taken for (but not used in) the article, "Woes continue for Mt. Meigs," which was published in the Birmingham News on May 28, 1967: "Four years ago reports of conditions at Alabama's Training School for Negro Children...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/195527 |
| Summary: | New dresses are laid out in a row behind them. This image was taken for (but not used in) the article, "Woes continue for Mt. Meigs," which was published in the Birmingham News on May 28, 1967: "Four years ago reports of conditions at Alabama's Training School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs shocked the state and spurred the Legislature to appropriate building funds for the institution. A legal hassle followed and only now are the changes beginning to show on the campus. What is the situation now? Are the problems at Mt. Meigs solved? Here is a report in word and picture." |
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