Unlawfully Incarcerated At Age Thirteen

By Emmarene Kaigler Streeter

My brother, Bobby Lee Kaigler Jr. and I, Emmarene Kaigler were literally ushered into involvement with the Sumter County Movement in 1962 by our maternal grandmother Mrs. Elnora Clark Pitts. I was thirteen years old when on Saturday, July 13, 1963, I was unlawfully arrested for participating in a organized peaceful demonstration in Americus, Georgia. I was transported to Dawson, Georgia where I was incarcerated for 3 days and 3 nights. We were separated from the older young ladies in Dawson on July 16. We, younger girls, ages 11-15 were transported to the Lee County Stockade where we were incarcerated for more days than has ever been recorded about this true story. Our story that involved seventeen Black Girls is most noted because for about two weeks, no one from the civil community of Americus, especially our parents did not know where we were being secretly incarcerated, beginning on Tuesday, July 16. They did not know if we were living or dead! We were later dubbed the Stolen Girls of the Lee County (Leesburg ) Stockade. I am a true Stolen Girl of the Lee County Stockade, Leesburg, Georgia who tells my true story about what I lived, endured, and barely survived about that traumatic incarceration, and what has occurred in the years that followed. We were all blessed to endure and survive in that filthy, deplorable small room without necessities for life. I did not have one drop of water during my incarceration or any beverage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CW8DHLSR
• ISBN13: 9798880301997
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 395 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"