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Dorothea Dix |
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Public awareness of the need for adequate and full-time care for the mentally ill was higher than ever, and reformers like Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) and Thomas Kirkbride (1809-1883) helped promote what would become an unparalleled movement to create asylums funded by state and local governments to tend to the needs of the mentally ill. Northerners such as Dorothea Dix, the crusader for the reform of mental institutions and later superintendent of female nurses for the Union during the war; Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, whom President Lincoln called "the woman that wrote the book that caused this war"; Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave who helped operate the "underground railroad"; and many others enjoy excellent sidebar treatment too. A bit more editorial pressure might have turned up sculptor Maya Lin, dancer Maria Tallchief, women's health advocate Margaret Sanger, TV producer Lucille Ball, astronaut Sally Ride, singer Marian Anderson, and federal appointee Dorothea Dix. |
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