Lila Nazarian

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Forty-one days passed inside Crownsville before she was seen by a psychiatrist, and when she was finally released, she returned home to find her food business was ruined. As one delegate remarked at the time: landing in Crownsville was not unlike jail, “as they are actually losing their liberties.”
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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