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In July 1963, a group of adolescent African-American girls were incarcerated in the Lee County Stockade following arrest during the Civil Rights Movement. They were not released until September 1963.
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Throughout the summer of 1963, record numbers of young people in Americus, Georgia, were arrested for joining the Civil Rights Movement. As the local jail filled up, more than 30 girls, ages 11 to 16, disappeared when authorities took them to an out-of-town stockade where their families couldn't find them.
Presenter: Heather E. Schwartz, author of "Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade", discusses the brutal conditions at the makeshift jail, how the girls were found and freed, and how she found survivors willing to share their stories.
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