the sad irony, of course, was that the reason Crownsville was struggling to hire enough staff and to run a safe hospital was, in large part, because the state was refusing to hire anyone who was not white. This straightforward truth seemed to go over the heads of many of its white neighbors, who wanted the hospital to spend its limited resources to fortify the hospital grounds. Meanwhile, Black Marylanders living in Anne Arundel and nearby counties were desperate for Crownsville, and many other state institutions, to desegregate. Many had tried to find jobs at the hospital for years, only to
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