Norton had discovered that Crownsville, the only place—public or private—willing to take in Black residents, had only eight doctors to take care of more than 1,800 men, women, and children, whom he described as being “herded into its buildings.” “Crownsville is supposed to do for Negro children what Rosewood Training School supposedly does for feeble-minded white children. But there is no school at Crownsville.” Men and women were sleeping in basement storage rooms and in sweltering attics without fire escapes. Children were two to a bed, sleeping feet-to-head. Some were overflowing out onto
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