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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

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

Asylum ledger

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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,…

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.…

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

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

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…

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

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…

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 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. 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. 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…

The Legal Aid Society of Forsyth County, Michael A. Sheely (Staff Attorney), Letter from Michael A. Sheely to Mr. Gunnar Dybwad, 8/1/1972

Sheely requests that Dybwad be an expert witness in the Webster v. Perry case and sets out the plaintiffs, the focus of the case, and the working…

Tags: letters

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…

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

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

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

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…

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,”…

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 , 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

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Burton Blatt, PARC memo, Jan 27, 1976

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

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…