Fresh Air

Inside A Jim Crow-Era Asylum


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NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum.

Also, Ken Tucker reviews the new album The Interrogator from The Paranoid Style.

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