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03143aam a2200469 i 4500 001 8D3898E8840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170908t20182018scua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017041484 020 $a 1611178606 020 $a 9781611178609 035 $a (OCoLC)1004512072 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c NOC $d DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NRC $d OCLCF $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-nc 050 00 $a HV9105.N8 $b B46 2018 100 1 $a Bennett, Barbara, $d 1959- $e author. 245 10 $a Smoke signals from Samarcand : $b the 1931 reform school fire and its aftermath / $c Barbara Bennett. 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b The University of South Carolina Press, $c [2018] 300 $a 121 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a State Home and Industrial School for Girls (Samarcand, N.C.) $x History. 600 10 $a Lewis, Nell Battle, $d 1893-1956. 600 17 $a Lewis, Nell Battle, $d 1893-1956. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00347581 610 27 $a State Home and Industrial School for Girls (Samarcand, N.C.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01995140 650 0 $a Trials (Arson) $z North Carolina $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Reformatories for women $z North Carolina $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Female juvenile delinquents $z North Carolina $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Poor girls $z North Carolina $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Female juvenile delinquents. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922624 650 7 $a Reformatories for women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01092592 650 7 $a Trials (Arson) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01156302 651 7 $a North Carolina. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204304 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Dust jackets (Binding) $2 rbbin 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bennett, Barbara, 1959- $t Smoke signals from Samarcand. $d Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018] $z 9781611178616 $w (DLC) 2017045422 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210022840.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8D3898E8840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search