Open sewage ditch at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children in Mount Meigs, Alabama.
This image was taken for 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 app...
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/195740 |
| Summary: | This image was taken for 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." It was published with the following caption: "Open Sewage Ditch . . . Will yellow fever follow?" |
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