The Girls and Boys of Belchertown
Robert Hornick
University of Massachusetts Press, 2012
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Offers the first detailed history of an American public institution for intellectually disabled persons. Robert Hornick recounts the story of the Belchertown State School in Belchertown, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in the 1920s to its closure in the 1990s following a scandalous expose and unprecedented court case that put the institution under direct supervision of a federal judge.
- ISBN-13
- 9781558499447
- ISBN-10
- 155849944X
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Year
- 2012
- Publication date
- 2012-06-19
- Pages
- 224
- Dimensions
- 228x161x16
- Weight
- 330