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Burton Blatt, PARC memo, Jan 27, 1976

A memo from Burton Blatt to the director of PARC, responding to the Pennsylvania guidelines

Asylum ledger

Admittance ledger for The New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women in Newark, NY

Burton Blatt, Pennhurst memo, April 26, 1981

Memo to folks affiliated with the Center on Human Policy to call a meeting to discuss the impact of the Pennhurst decision and brainstorm ways to…

One to One, Samy Davis, Jr. concert pamphlet, April 10, 1981

Institute for Information Studies, National Institute of Handicapped Research, How to make friends and influence the media, 1979

Group photo of the SPE 644 Significant Disabilities: Shifts in Paradigms & Practices class

From left to right: Caitlin Cafiero, Dr. Julia M. White, Raquell Carpenter, Kionna Morrison, Kayla Cornelius, Thea Pilipina, (in front of Thea,…

Dr. John Johnson, Letter from Dr. John Johnson to David Jaquith, July 11, 1965

In July 1968, Dr. Johnson wrote to Mr. Jaquith expressing his concern that the Syracuse Board of Education was planning to create special classes for…

Center on Human Policy, Families for all children, 1987

Newsletter from the Community Integration Project and Research and Training Center on Community Integration at the Center on Human Policy, with the…

Douglas Biklen and Milton Baker, Principles of whistleblowing, no date

Booklet titled Principles of Whistleblowing, by Douglas Biklen, Ph.D. and Milton Baker, R.N., published by the DD Rights Center of the Mental Health…

unknown, Magazine photo/ad of child living in a New York mental institution, unknown, no date

Magazine photo/ad with a black background of a naked child sitting in a shallow hole, with his back toward the camera and his head buried between his…

Stan Lee and John Romita, Spiderman comic strip, No date listed, but these panels were published in newspapers from March 16-17, 1978

Seven panels from the Spider-Man newspaper comic strip. These panels depict the meeting between Spider-Man and Tommy Rimston, who uses a wheelchair…

Sue Campbell, BOCES bill opposed by county group newspaper clipping, Handwritten date on the clipping is 3/24/72

Newspaper article that discusses a position paper by the Onondaga Association for Retarded Children that opposes the establishment of a special school…

One To One, Film and tape of John Lennon

Statement that clarifies who owns the rights to the benefit concert for WIllowbrook and One To One by John Lennon, after Yoko Ono re-issued the…

Doug Biklen, Memorandum to Burt Blatt from Doug Bilken, May 18, 1977

A memorandum to Dr. Burton Blatt, professor at Syracuse University from Dr. Douglas Biklen acknowledging the national importance of the Larry P. v.…

The Legal Aid Society of Forsyth County, Michael A. Sheely (Staff Attorney), Letter from Dr. Burton Blatt to Michael A. Sheely, August 29, 1972

Blatt emphasizes the significance of Webster vs. Perry while acknowledging the limitations of the author's expertise in children excluded from school…

Douglas Biklen, Memorandum from Doug Biklen to Burton Blatt about White v. Manlius et al., May 10, 1979

In this memorandum about White vs. Manlius, BIklen reports that he met with the Onondaga ARC attorney, who informed him that the CHP and Syracuse…

Viola Hall, Letter from Principal Viola Hall to Dr. Douglas Biklen, April 29, 1976

A letter to Dr. Douglas P. Biklen, Associate Director of the Center on Human Policy at Syracuse University, from Principal Viola Hall of the McCarthy…

One to One, One to One Questions and Answers

Leaflet outlines the history and purpose of the One To One Foundation, including the concert, featuring John Lennon, that raised money for…

Lee Bailey, Media invitation to “Captain Hook Meets Doctor Strangelove” Conference, March 31, 1977

A letter on Syracuse University's Center on Human Policy letterhead. The letter is addressed to “Writers, Publishers, Television and Film Producers,”…

Dr. H.B. Wilbur, Superintendent of the New York Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, Letter from Dr. H.B. Wilbur to Mrs. Mary Thornton dated November 20th, 1855, 11/20/1855

Dr. H.B. Wilbur writes again to Mrs. Mary Thornton to update her about her son James Thornton. Wilbur tells her that James is “perfectly happy in his…

Notebook belonging to Geraldo Rivera

Reporter’s notebook that contains notes on Geraldo Rivera’s experiences at Willowbrook. Some of these notes were included in the script for the…

Dr. H.B. Wilbur, Superintendent of the New York Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, Letter from Dr. H.B. Wilbur to Mrs. Mary Thornton dated October 8th, 1855, 10/8/1855

Dr. H.B. Wilbur writes to Mrs. Mary Thornton to give her a very short update on her son James Thornton about a month after his arrival at the New York…

Dr. H.B. Wilbur, Superintendent of the New York Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, Letter from Dr. H.B. Wilbur to Mrs. Mary Thornton dated January 8th, 1866, 01/08/1855

In the last letter of the James Thornton Correspondence collection, Dr. H.B. Wilbur writes to Mrs. Mary Thornton, this time to ask for an update from…

Dr. H.B. Wilbur, Superintendent of the New York Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, Letter from Dr. H.B. Wilbur to Dr. R.H. Gray dated September 7th, 1855, 9/7/1855

In the first letter of the James Thornton Correspondence collection, Dr. H.B. Wilbur writes to Dr. R.H. Gray. As the Superintendent of the New York…

Walter Goodman, Newspaper clipping/pictures from an institution.

Newspaper photograph of the inside of an institution showing patients sitting on benches and the floor, doing nothing. There is a corresponding…

Hilda Herrick Noyes, The Oneida Community Experiment in Stirpiculture, no date

Essay written about the stirpiculture experiment including statistics

Tags: 19th century, eugenics, oneida, Oneida Community

Hilda Herrick Noyes, Weights of Oneida Community Babies, 1/1/1871

Researcher transcription of the names, dates of birth, and weight and size of the first half of the 58 live born Oneida Community stirpiculture babies…

Tags: 19th century, eugenics, oneida, Oneida Community

James C, Jackson, Physician in chief at Our Home on the Hillside, How to beget and rear beautiful children, 1872

Booklet by the Physician-in-Chief of “Our Home on the Hillside,” in Dansville, NY, on how to breed children similarly to livestock, to breed out…

Tags: 19th century, eugenics

State of New York Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled, General principles, techniques, and procedures for investigations   , 1/17/1879

The State of New York Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled Guide to General Principles, Techniques and Procedures for…

Tags: 19th century, legal

Washington People First, The People First Handbook, 1981

The People First Handbook includes a variety of information about the self-advocacy group People First, for people “who are developmentally disabled”…

Tags: 20th century, self-advocacy

Douglas P. Biklen, “The Center on Human Policy” by Douglas P. Biklen

Included in a Programs for the Handicapped booklet from the Office of the Handicapped in Washington, D.C., Douglas P. Biklen’s article “The Center on…

Tags: 20th century, self-advocacy, Syracuse University

Victor Craigin Noyes, Letter from Victor Craigin Noyes to Gerrit Smith dated November 7, 1867, 11/7/1867

Victor Craigin Noyes writes to Gerrit Smith to give him an update after a previous visit in August of 1866. In the letter, Noyes recalls that during…

Tags: letters

Dr. John L Johnson, Letter To Mr. David Jaquith from Dr. John Johnson, May 11, 1968, 3/11/1968

Dr. Johnson wrote a letter to David Jaquith, President of the Syracuse Board of Education, in response to statements Jaquith made in a March 10, 1968…

Tags: letters

Dr. John L Johnson, Editorial Comment: The Problem in Schools: Freedom and Responsibility, 1969, 1970

Dr. Johnson describes Black liberation in the Syracuse community and beyond. Dr. Johnson discusses how the education system has failed the Black…

Dr. John L Johnson, An Open Letter to the Faculty of the School of Education, 9/18/1968

Dr. Johnson, referring to the Kerner Report and the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., expressed his concern about the way that the faculty…

Tags: letters

Burton Blatt and Frank Garfunkel, “The Standardization of Intelligence Tests on Southern Negro School Children”, August 1963

The article “The Standardization of Intelligence Tests on Southern Negro School Children” was featured in the Training School Bulletin volume 60…

Fred Kaplan (Photographer), Black Star Corporation , Boy Against the Wall, 1965

A young boy stands alone facing a wall in an unknown institution.  Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan took this photograph when they visited numerous…

Tags: photography

Fred Kaplan (Photographer), Black Star Corporation , An unknown Black girl with other inmates, 1965

This photograph shows a young girl of color interacting with institution staff. Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan took this photograph when they visited…

Tags: photography

Fred Kaplan (Photographer), Black Star Corporation, Unknown Willowbrook Children, 1965

This photograph shows five unknown children. They do not have much to entertain themselves with. Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan took this photograph…

Tags: photography

Fred Kaplan (Photographer), Black Star Corporation , Two Children playing Jacks, 1965

This photograph shows two unknown children playing Jacks in an unknown institution. One of these children is a person of color. Burton Blatt, along…

Tags: photography

Bob Rollins, Superintendent of the Dorthea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina., Letter to Dr. Thomas S. Szasz from the Superintendant of The Dorthea Dix Hospital, Dr. Bob Rollins, 2/4/1972

Dr. Thomas Szasz received a letter from the Dorthea Dix Hospital Superintendent (1972), who gave him copies of a letter sent to the hospital in 1865.…

Tags: letters

Lee Bailey, Captain Hook Meets Doctor Strangelove: A Conference on Images of Disability in the Media, 1977

A letter to Participants in the Captain Hook Meets Doctor Strangelove Conference and the informational poster originally mailed with the letter. The…

You Gave Us Your Dimes, Now We Want Our Rights, no date

A poster displaying a green field with the International Symbol of Access in a large dark blue circle in the middle. The wheelchair user displayed in…

Fight Handicapism, no date

A tan poster with the definition of handicapism in the center . It reads: “Handicapism: (han-di-kap-ism) n. 1: a theory and set of practices that…

Freedom Now

A large poster with a cloudy sky as the background. In the top right in red letters it reads “Freedom Now!” with the word now underlined. In the…

Originated by Rosemary Crossley, DEAL Communication Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Poster developed by: The Facilitated Communication Project at the School of Education, Division of Special Education and Rehabilitation., Not Being Able to Speak is Not the Same as Not Having Anything to Say

"A dark blue poster with large orange letters that read in capital letters “Not Being Able to Speak is Not the Same as Not Having Anything to Say.” In…

One to One, The First Annual One to One Media Awards, 6/28/1978

One to One Media Awards encouraged and acknowledged exemplary efforts in the fields of journalism, photography, art, film, and publishing that…

One to One, The Second Annual One to One Media Awards, 6/9/1979

One to One Media Awards encouraged and acknowledged exemplary efforts in the fields of journalism, photography, art, film, and publishing that…

The institution in Danville, NY called “Our Home on the Hillside”, “Our Home On The Hillside” brochure, no date

This brochure aimed to recruit “invalids” and “the sick” to be treated under “the Psycho-Hygienic method” pioneered by Dr. James C. Jackson. It…

Tags: eugenics, oneida

Robert Bogdan and Douglas Biklen, “Handicapism” by Robert Bogdan & Doug Biklen, Social Policy March/April 1977

Bogdan & Biklen’s article that coined the term “handicapism” as a description of systemic discrimination against disabled people. The six page article…