Lies Uncovered The Truth About the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys: The Long Journey Home

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Nickel Boys was based upon the Arthur G. Dozier Reform School for Boys

The book Lies Uncovered exposes the truth about the Dozier Reform School for Boys through interviews of Black men who were incarcerated at the reform school from the 1950s through the 1980s.

The now-defunct school robbed many young boys of their lives while profiting off their forced labor. For over a sixty-year span, the accounts from survivors have remained remarkably consistent, regardless of their age or origin:

• Stories told by an eighty-year-old survivor and a thirty-year-old survivor are remarkably the same.
• Young men were taken from various locations, including the streets of Daytona Beach, Florida, and Sanford, Florida.
• Survivors reveal the terrible truth of their experiences and the lasting trauma they endure.

The men interviewed speak of still having nightmares of the Arthur G. Dozier Reform School for Boys and their experiences detailed in The Long Journey Home.