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Aerial view of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital campus, 1922. The Pennhurst campus in 1922. Assembly Hall, Penn Hall and Devon Hall had not been built yet. And Commonwealth Drive apparently ended at Mayflower Hall.
Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was a state-run institution for mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania located in Spring City. [4] After 79 years of controversy, it closed on December 9, 1987. [5]
Johnson was born 14 September 1945. [1] He was the youngest of nine children – six girls and three boys. He was born a twin but his twin sibling died in infancy. [2] The Johnson family lived in a three-bedroom house, first on Ellsworth Street across from the Christian Union Church in South Philadelphia, then later on North Cleveland Street in North Philadelphia.
Text of Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman, 465 U.S. 89 (1984) is available from: CourtListener Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio) Suffer The Little Children, a 1968 exposé on Pennhurst State School by NBC10 reporter Bill Baldini.
1) My understanding, from reading the old version, and from a perusal of some online info, is that Pennhurst is notable primarily because of the terrible treatment of patient's there, and how exposure of that treatment was a major part of the changes surrounding disabled rights.
Pennhurst station was a former train station in the borough of Spring City, Pennsylvania. It served as a station for the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was originally built to accommodate the Pennhurst State School and Hospital. It was demolished in 1959. [1] [2]
Thomas K. Gilhool (September 10, 1938 – August 22, 2020) was an American civil rights attorney. Noted as an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, he served as the chief counsel for the Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia from 1975 until 2000.
Allentown State Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located at 1600 Hanover Avenue in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It served Lehigh , Northampton , Carbon , Monroe , Pike , and occasionally eastern Schuylkill counties in the Lehigh Valley and Northestern regions of Pennsylvania .