In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded and never returned home. She was about 20 years old, Black and illiterate.

In late September 2021, I received an email about a woman named Ethel Benson. Ethel, her granddaughter wrote to me, was a young Black woman who was sent to Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded ...