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They Told Me Not To Tell: Dozier Reform School Was A Living Hell

by Antoinette Harrell

A former student’s account of Dozier Reform School

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A former student’s account of Dozier Reform School

Antoinette Harrell’s juvenile nonfiction book centers on Johnny Lee Gaddy’s recollections of Arthur G. Dozier Reform School in Marianna, Florida, where he was a student from 1957 to 1961. Gaddy describes rape, beatings, and abuse at the state-run school. The account also traces how, after keeping these experiences private for fifty years, he shared them with Harrell, a peonage researcher, who helped bring his childhood experiences to media attention. The subject is institutional abuse and the act of making a personal account public.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking nonfiction accounts of physical and emotional abuse in an institutional setting.
  • Readers interested in personal testimony connected to Florida history.
  • Readers exploring how experiences of childhood abuse are brought to public attention.

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Institutional abusePersonal testimonyChildhood experiencesPublic disclosure

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Book overview

Johnny Lee Gaddy, a former student of Arthur G. Dozier Reform School in Marianna, Florida., from 1957 to 1961, recalls getting raped, beaten, abused and at the infamous state-run Reform School in the Panhandle town of Marianna, Florida. For the first time in fifty years, he shared his horrible experiences with peonage researcher Antoinette Harrell who helped him expose his childhood experiences at Arthur G. Dozier Reform School to the media.
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