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AACHM Oral History: Paul Edwin Wasson

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Paul Edwin Wasson was born September 8, 1923, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After leaving school in the tenth grade, Mr. Wasson joined the United States Army at the beginning of World War II. In 1943, Mr. Wasson left the Army and came to Detroit. Arriving on the heels of the Detroit Riots, he decided to head west to Ypsilanti. Mr. Wasson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s; worked at the University of Michigan Hospital for seventeen years, and is most proud of his children. He encourages all young people to get an education.

Overloaded Mental Hospitals - Patients Unable To Enter Hospitals Lose Chance Of Cure

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Ann Arbor News, February 22, 1937

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February

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1937

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Behind The Bars For Being Ill

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1937

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Ann Arbor News, February 22, 1937
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Behind The Bars For Being Ill - In jails throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan are many persons who are there not because they are guilty of crime, but because they have been stricken with mental disease. Although they have been legally committed to a state mental institution for the special hospital treatment and care their illness demands, they are kept in jail for indefinite periods because the hospitals are so overloaded they cannot be taken in. Meanwhile they are robbed of some of their chances for relief or recovery. More than 1,000 sick minds now wait outside the overcrowded hospitals to which they have been assigned. Not all are in jail, many being kept at home or allowed to roam about with possible latent danger to themselves or to others. Not all jails are so "pleasant" as the one pictured above, which is new and modern.