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Date: April 22, 2016 02:36AM
"The State Boys Rebellion"
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the amazing story of how a group of imprisoned boys won their freedom, found justice, and survived one of the darkest and least-known episodes of American history.
In the early twentieth century, United States health officials used IQ tests to single out "feebleminded" children and force them into institutions where they were denied education, sterilized, drugged, and abused. Under programs that ran into the 1970s, more than 250,000 children were separated from their families, although many of them were merely unwanted orphans, truants, or delinquents.
The State Boys Rebellion conveys the shocking truth about America's eugenic era through the experiences of a group of boys held at the Fernald State School in Massachusetts starting in the late 1940s"
http://www.amazon.com/State-Boys-Rebellion-Michael-DAntonio/dp/074324513X?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00