ECDS Project Name of ECDS Member Who are the ECDS folks that have been involved in the project? Yang Li Sara Palmer Name of Faculty Lead Who is the primary Faculty contact that has been involved in the project? Kylie Smith Project Documentation Site Is the project documentation being held somewhere specific for the team? Microsoft Teams link, Dropbox, Box, NAS resource, etc https://trello.com/c/kl1eyc5v Name of Project Lead Who is the ECDS person taking the lead? Yang Li Project Images of Interest Images that might be used in articles, highlights, reports, presentations, or otherwise that are of interest to the project and would be useful to have easy access to. Please avoid images that are highly compressed or extraordinarily small. The Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and 60's sought to end racial segregation in all U.S. public institutions, including hospitals. Psychiatric hospitals became political battlegrounds over segregation and patients' rights, setting the scene for disparities that continue today. This project explores the process of desegregation and deinstitutionalization in state psychiatric hospitals in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. It draws on original records, court cases and personal testimony to expose the racist ideas that underpinned the treatment of African Americans with mental illness and saw psychiatric hospitals used as dumping grounds for some of the south's most vulnerable people. The result of this research will become a book published by UNC Press, available in both paper and digital Open Access format. You will be able to read that book here, and the online text will include video, audio and imagery that I collect along the way. Project Website The primary URL of the project website. (eg: https://soundingspirit.org/ ) https://manifold.ecds.emory.edu/projects/jim-crow-in-the-asylum/ Date of Launch The date the project was unveiled to the world. 2026-01-13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jim Crow in the Asylum