They Had No Voice: My Fight for Alabama's Forgotten Children

Denny Abbott first encountered the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs as a twenty—one—year—old probation officer for the Montgomery County Family Court. He would become so concerned about conditions for black juvenile offenders there—including hard labor, beatings, and rape—that he took the State of Alabama to court to win reforms. With the help of the U.S. Justice Department, Abbott won a resounding victory that brought change, although three years later he had to su...