Dorothea Dix, Mental Asylum Activist
Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. Daguerreotype, c. 1849
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