{"id":1044334,"date":"2023-03-29T21:17:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/?p=224640"},"modified":"2023-03-29T21:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:17:43","slug":"protest-song-of-the-week-mount-meigs-by-lonnie-holley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/29\/protest-song-of-the-week-mount-meigs-by-lonnie-holley\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest Song Of The Week: \u2018Mount Meigs\u2019 By Lonnie Holley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Originally published at Ongoing History of Protest Music<\/a> <\/em> As late as the 1960s, prisoners were forced to pick cotton from early morning to late evening, with physical and sexual abuse commonplace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis was functionally a slave plantation,\u201d\u00a0concluded<\/a> journalist Josie Duffy Rice, who researched the school\u2019s history for a\u00a0podcast series.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among those who endured those horrors was 73-year-old acclaimed visual artist and avant-garde musician Lonnie Holley, who was arrested when he was 11. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Founded in 1911, the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children was a juvenile correctional facility in the Mount Meigs community near Montgomery, Alabama. The juvenile facility was notorious for the abuse inflicted on Black youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n