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Author Burch, Susan, author.

Title Unspeakable : the story of Junius Wilson / Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations
Series Caravan Book
Caravan book
Contents Introduction; 1 One Misstep; 2 From One Institution to Another; 3 Walls; 4 Renaming, Remaining; 5 Classified; 6 Vital Signs; 7 Reinterpreting; 8 New Places, New Faces; 9 Almost Home; 10 Judgments; 11 The End?; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
Summary Presents the story of Junius Wilson, a deaf man accused in 1925 of attempted rape, found insane at a lunacy hearing, committed to the criminal ward of the State Hospital for the Colored Insane, castrated, forced to labor for the institution, and held at the hospital for more than seven decades
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Wilson, Junius, 1908-2001.
SUBJECT Wilson, Junius, 1908-2001 fast
Subject Deaf -- North Carolina -- Greensboro -- Biography
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Greensboro -- Biography
Racism -- Southern States -- Case studies
People with disabilities -- Abuse of -- United States -- Case studies
Mentally ill -- Abuse of -- United States -- Case studies
Diagnostic errors -- United States -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Deaf
African Americans
Diagnostic errors
Mentally ill -- Abuse of
People with disabilities -- Abuse of
Race relations
Racism
SUBJECT Greensboro (N.C.) -- Biography
Greensboro (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject North Carolina -- Greensboro
Southern States
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Case studies
History
Biographies.
Case studies.
Biographies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Joyner, Hannah, author.
ISBN 9780807884348
0807884340