| Description |
1 online resource (121 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In 1931, sixteen poor white teenage girls at Samarcand Training School for Girls in Moore County, North Carolina, were accused of burning down two buildings in protest against living conditions at the school. They were called incorrigible, troublesome, and vixens by the administration and the press, and they were put on trial for their lives. Their lawyer, who volunteered to defend the girls, was a newly licensed woman named Nell Battle Lewis, known most as a journalist who spoke for the voiceless in society and only the second woman lawyer to try a case in Raleigh. The time leading up to the sensational trial revealed the girls were victims of class, sex, and eugenics. Partly a retelling of the dramatic story and partly a treatise on southern society in the early twentieth century, Smoke signals from Samarcand tells a tale of the benighted South and the victims of that time and place"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
State Home and Industrial School for Girls (Samarcand, N.C.) -- History.
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State Home and Industrial School for Girls (Samarcand, N.C.) |
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History. |
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Lewis, Nell Battle, 1893-1956.
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Lewis, Nell Battle, 1893-1956. |
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Lewis, Nell Battle, 1893-1956. |
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Trials (Arson) -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
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Trials (Arson) |
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North Carolina. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Reformatories for women -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
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Female juvenile delinquents -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
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Poor girls -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Poor girls. |
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Social conditions. |
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Reformatories for women. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. |
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Female juvenile delinquents. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bennett, Barbara, 1959- Smoke signals from Samarcand. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018] 9781611178609 (DLC) 2017041484 |
| ISBN |
9781611178616 (electronic book) |
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1611178614 (electronic book) |
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1611178606 |
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9781611178609 |
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