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__** Dorothea Dix **__ media type="youtube" key="v50i1zIcUe4" height="344" width="425"
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Can you tell us about your accomplishments?  I am the “ voice for the mad ” , I created the first generation of American mental asylums. Also during the civil war, I served as superintendent of army nurses. I believe that people with disabilities, mental illness, all women and men should have equal rights, and protection like others.  What was your main goal and how did you achieve it?  My main goal was to give equal rights and protection both for people with mental illness and people who does not have mental illness. So I built the first mental asylums in America. I also wrote the legislature saying “ I have come to present to you the strong claims of suffering humanity, I come as the advocate of the helpless, forgotten, insane men and women held in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience! ”  And I will serve for people with mental illness until I die.  <span style="font-family: 바탕;">What inspired you in to help people with disabilities? <span style="font-family: 바탕;"> <span style="font-family: 바탕;">When I was about 40, a friend of mine asked me to teach for his Sunday school class for women at the East Cambridge prison because before I worked as an activist, I was a teacher my whole life. So I went there and I was so shocked what I saw there. They were in an environment I never would have imagined. The mental ill people were incarcerated together in a bare, foul-smelling, unheated jail room. From that day, I devoted rest of my life to work as the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“ <span style="font-family: 바탕;">voice for the mad <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">”
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Primary and Secondary Sources http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=96 (Dorothea Dix's quotes) http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/UIA%20Online/87dix.html (Dorothea's picture) http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/dorotheadix.html (Secondary source about her early life & etc)

1. What was Dorothea Dix's main philosophy and how is it related to the Industrial Revolution? 2. What event turned Dix's point of view for people with mental illness and how did she change? 3. Dorothea Dix built the first Mental Asylums in America. Who do you think she built the Mental Asylums for? People with mental illness or for normal citizens? Explain.
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