Title: Unspeakable
Description: Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life.
Subjects: Abuse of, African Americans, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Case studies, Deaf, Diagnostic errors, History, Mentally ill, Nonfiction, People with disabilities, Race relations, Racism
Places: Greensboro, Greensboro (N.C.), North Carolina, Southern States, United States
People: Junius Wilson (1908-2001)
Time periods: 20th century