Lost Girls: Remembered half a century later

Lost Girls: Remembered half a century later

By Jim Wallace

http://www.walb.com/story/28697212/lost-girls-remembered-half-a-century-later

LEESBURG, GA (WALB) - Fifteen women who were thrown in a stockade in Leesburg as girls during the Civil Rights movement are being honored.

It's a truly inspirational story. They were thrown in the stockade for nearly two months. Today, they say it's all worth it.

"Inhumane" is a word the women used to describe the Lee County stockade they were thrown into in 1963. "To be honest, we thought it would end in death," said Carol Barner-Seay.

No running water, no beds, and very little food. "To put children inside something as horrendous as this was just inhumane," said Barner-Seay.

These women are being honored this Saturday by the Americus Sumter Boys and Girls Club and Georgia Southwestern State University.

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