| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
I Have the Jawbone -- It Was God's Work -- A Mother's Love -- Building on Faith -- The Start Is Made -- Spurgeon and Other Headaches -- We Had to Go -- Dwelling in Green Pastures -- An Open Door -- An Honest Trade -- The Junk Heap -- Down on the Farm -- Training Heart, Head, and Hands -- Present Arms! -- Blowing a Horn -- The Boys' Banner -- A Winning Reputation -- Amen -- Healing Body and Soul -- Boys Will Be Boys -- End of an Era -- Change |
| Summary |
As Elizabeth Johnston walked among the convicts in an Alabama prison mining camp, she was stunned to see teenage boys working alongside hardened criminals. As a result of that disturbing experience, she vowed to remove youngsters from such wretched conditions by establishing a home for wayward boys. With the support of women across the state, she persuaded the Alabama legislature to establish the Alabama Boys' Industrial School in 1900. After several difficult years, Johnston and her all-female board made a once-in-a-lifetime decision by hiring a young couple from Tennessee, David and Katherine Weakley, as superintendent and matron. United by their Christian faith, their love for the boys, and some basic principles on how the boys should be molded into men, Johnston and the Weakleys labored together for decades to make the school one of the nation's premier institutions of its kind. A Home for Wayward Boys is the inspiring story of the school, its leaders, and the youngsters who lived there. The book's audience is not limited to those professionally interested in the social sciences and cultural history, but also to social workers, youth leaders, teachers, and parents'in fact, to anyone interested in the transforming power of love |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-181) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Alabama Boy's Industrial School.
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| SUBJECT |
Alabama Boy's Industrial School fast |
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Reformatories -- Alabama -- History
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Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- Alabama -- History
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Juvenile delinquents -- Education -- Alabama -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Juvenile delinquents -- Education
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Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation
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Reformatories
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Alabama
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781603063784 |
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1603063781 |
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1603063781 |
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