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Wrightsville honors 21 African American boys killed in 1959 industrial school fire
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The town of Wrightsville gathered at the Wrightsville Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections to remember the 21 African American teenage boys who lost their lives in a fire that broke out in what was then called the Negro Boys Industrial School over six decades ago.
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