Elwood staring at the camera in Nickel Boys.
✕ Remove Ads Director RaMell Ross shines a light on a dark, sorely overlooked piece of American history with the release of the 2024 film Nickel Boys. Set in the Jim Crow era, this historical drama follows young Elwood Curtis, a young Black man falsely labeled an accomplice to a car theft and sent to Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school rife with violence and corruption. While the movie's set up guarantees drama, the true story inspiration is perhaps even more shocking.
✕ Remove Ads According to The Guardian, the Dozier School for Boys had students sent there for charges of theft or running away from home. Other students were simply considered "incorrigible" by their families. Some were just orphans who had nowhere else to go. The school was also racially segregated until 1967, but this was only one of countless other crimes that the school's staff were accused of committing.
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