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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…

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

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…

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

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…

United States District Court Eastern District of New York, Permanent Injunction Document Summary, 2/25/1987

This artifact is a Permanent Injunction document dated after February 25, 1987, originating from the United States District Court Eastern District of…

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…

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

Wall Street Charity Fund, Wall Street Charity Fund Pamphlet, 1972

The Wall Street Charity Fund originated in 1972 by a group of businessmen and women within the securities industry concerned about the treatment of…

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.…

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

unknown, William Henry Johnson: “Zip”, no date

Image of William Henry Johnson, stage name “Zip,” previously “What is It?” Johnson was a Black man who had microcephaly. The first card shows him…

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…

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

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

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…

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

Tags: 20th century, legal, newspaper

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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 , 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

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

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…

Tags: letters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

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 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…

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,”…