Black Boys Burning: The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School

by Grif Stockley

Book Overview

On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, thirteen miles outside of Little Rock. Her son Lindsey had been confined there since January 14, after a judge for juveniles found him guilty of stealing from a neighborhood store owner. To her horror, Lindsey was not among the forty-eight boys who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496834526
• ISBN13: 9781496834522
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"