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BL
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1009196
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b763566
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| Main Entry
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Burch, Susan
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| Title & Author
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Unspeakable : : the story of Junius Wilson /\ Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, [2007]
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, ©2007
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| Series Statement
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Caravan Book
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1 online resource (304 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0807884340
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: 9780807884348
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0807831557
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9780807831557
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Wilson, Junius,1908-2001.
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Wilson, Junius,1908-2001.
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African Americans-- North Carolina-- Greensboro, Biography.
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Deaf-- North Carolina-- Greensboro, Biography.
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Diagnostic errors-- United States, Case studies.
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Mentally ill-- Abuse of-- United States, Case studies.
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People with disabilities-- Abuse of-- United States, Case studies.
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Racism-- Southern States, Case studies.
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African Americans.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Social Scientists Psychologists.
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Deaf.
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Diagnostic errors.
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Mentally ill-- Abuse of.
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People with disabilities-- Abuse of.
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Race relations.
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Racism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- People with Disabilities.
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Greensboro (N.C.), Biography.
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Greensboro (N.C.), Race relations, History, 20th century.
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Southern States, Race relations, History, 20th century.
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North Carolina, Greensboro.
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Southern States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.4/2092B
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| LC Classification
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HV2534.W54B87 2007eb
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| Added Entry
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Joyner, Hannah
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