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Inside A Jim Crow-Era Asylum

Inside A Jim Crow-Era Asylum

FromFresh Air


Inside A Jim Crow-Era Asylum

FromFresh Air

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jan 29, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. Also, Ken Tucker reviews the new album The Interrogator from The Paranoid Style.
Released:
Jan 29, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.