In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded ... to a footnote in this chapter of American history. An estimated 70,000 Americans were ...

Ethel, her granddaughter wrote to me, was a young Black woman who was sent to Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded ... a 1929-1938 Record of Operations book for Beebe Hospital.

Delaware's role in the country's eugenics movement, from which Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany used as a model, has often been relegated to a footnote in this chapter of American history. An estimated ...

DSU and Delaware Historical Society's Center for African American Heritage are partnering on the event. Registration is required by calling (302) 655-7161 or visiting www.dehistory.org , where ...

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. Her great sin, in ...

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.