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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

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…

Burton Blatt, PARC memo, Jan 27, 1976

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

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…

Cass Canfield, chair of publisher Harper & Row, on behalf of Planned Parenthood Association of the Mohawk Valley Incorporated’s Madison County chapter, Planned Parenthood fundraising letter May 25, 1970, 5/25/1970

A letter from publisher Cass Canfield on behalf of Planned Parenthood Association of the Mohawk Valley Inc, Madison Co. Chapter to a Mr. Hubbard.…

Tags: eugenics

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…

Clerk U.S. District Court San Francisco, Larry P. V. Riles, 1/18/1977

The plaintiffs NAACP Legal Defense and Education team vs. defendants Board of Education of the San Francisco Unified School District. The first…

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.…

Douglas Biklen , Memorandum to Burt Blatt from Doug Bilken, 5/18/1977

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

Tags: letters

Douglas Biklen, Letter from Douglas Biklen to Principal Viola Hall, 5/4/1978

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

Tags: letters

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…

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…

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

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…

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 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 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…

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…

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

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, 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…

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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…

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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 , 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 P. Graham, New York Times, The Law: “Sterilization or Jail”, 5/29/1966

A clipping of an article from the New York Times 5/29/1966 written by Fred P. Graham. The article gives a brief history of sterilization of…

Tags: eugenics

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

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

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

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

James C. Jackson MD, How to cure drunkards, 1868

Booklet by the Physician-in-Chief of “Our Home on the Hillside,” the Largest Hygienic Infirmary in the World in Dansville, NY, on how to cure…

Tags: eugenics, oneida

Joseph R. Hixson, New York Times, “Forecasts From the Womb”, 1/19/1967

A full-page article from the January 19, 1967 edition of the New York Times that describes the then-new procedure of amniocentesis and its potential…

Tags: eugenics

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…

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,”…

Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Justices Rule Retarded Have Right to Training

Tags: 20th century, legal, newspaper

Miami Herald, Newspaper article (“Legal rights of the retarded are curtailed”), 4/21/1981

The news article from April 21, 1981, discusses the Supreme Court's ruling on the Pennhurst case, which narrowed the legal rights of individuals with…

Milton A. White, Karen P. White, and other property owners against the establishment of a Community Residential Facility for Disabled Adults in Manlius, New York., Notice of Petition, White v. Manlius, 5/7/1979

White vs. Manlius is a petition of Milton A. White, Karen P. White, and other property owners against the town of Manlius, NY, the Center on Human…

Morris, Hiram and Barney Davis: “The Wild men of Borneo”, no date

Hiram and Barney Davis posing with Dr. Hanaford Warner. Dr. Warner was the employer and guardian of the Davis brothers. The brothers worked in Dr.…

New York State Department of Education, Bretch vs. City of Syracuse School District, 4/24/1975

Court case of Petitioner Roger and Joan Bretch on behalf of child James Bretch v Respondent Board of Education of the City of Syracuse. The court case…

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…

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, 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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

State Board of Charities, Record of Elizabeth Wilson, an inmate of the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women, 12/20/1887

A description of Elizabeth Wilson, who was admitted in12/20/1887 and discharged 2/22/1900. The record indicates that she is amused by talking or…

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

Steven J. Taylor and Douglas P. Biklen, Understanding the law, Human Policy Press

An advocates’ guide to the law and developmental disabilities by Steven J. Taylor and Douglas P. Biklen. The guide references court cases, including…