Does Dozier School for Boys Contain THREE Cemeteries Full of Buried Children?

Two more former inmates have come forward to tell Sunshine State News that they personally saw a cemetery -- containing anywhere between 30 and 60 graves -- in the white section of the then-segregatedArthur G. Dozier School for Boys, while they were incarcerated at the campus more than 50 years ago.

But they locate it more than 2,000 feet away from the site claimed by fellow former inmate Daniel Holloway who (as SSN reported earlier today) served time at the infamous state "reform school" more than 10 years later.

According to the official story, the now-closed school has only ever had one cemetery, named Boot Hill and located in what, back in the days of segregation (1900, when the school was opened, to 1968, when segregation was outlawed), used to be the African-American section of the Marianna campus. Supposedly, and contrary to prevailing practice at the time elsewhere in America (and especially in the South), the school complex did not have separate cemeteries for blacks and whites. All children who died in the state's custody, whatever their race, were buried on Boot Hill, enjoying in the grave the racial ecumenism they were denied while they were alive.

Both sets of witnesses insist they saw the extra cemetery several times a day for the duration of their imprisonment; and both insist that this cemetery was located in the "white" portion of the campus. Are they referring to the same graveyard, their memories fuzzy about the details? Or did the campus havethreecemeteries, two of which are today unknown to Attorney General Pam Bondi and USF archaeologists investigating the site?

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