The Poison Garden

It tells the true stories of 3 acts of racial terrorism that occurred in and out of South Florida's courts in the 1930s and draws parallels to the problems of law enforcement today.

"Human Rights is a fundamental thing that should take priority over everything else if we envision a more humane society". Daisaku Ikeda"

The past is not dead, It's not even past." William Faulkner

Evellyn Santos was born and raised in Sao Paulo/Brazil, graduated in Hotel Administration, and moved to the U.S. in 1998. Currently, she lives in Ft. Lauderdale. In 2016, she coordinated the assembly of exhibits for the opening of the Crime Tours Museum in Fort Lauderdale, which gave her an understanding of the history of South Florida, the crime stories and social injustice that have occurred there, especially during the first 50 years of last the century. Together with the founder of Crime Tours, she helped select crime-related stories that have affected society and still reflect on today and led to the creation of a series of short films (PBS: South Florida from Crime to Crime).

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