From Far More Different Angles: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940
From Far More Different Angles: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940
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Staff reported that "delinquent tendencies in the latter group were so strong that satisfactory adjustment at the Colony were [sic] 4 9 impossible. " 307 The effects of a dual wage scale, one for black employees and one for white ones, also negatively impacted the institution. In August 1939, only eight months after opening, a state investigation found "negroes are employed only as Attendants and Nurses. They receive a low wage, from $40 to $45 monthly, and work long hours a day." More importan...tly, "The institution does not give them or secure for them Accident Insurance, Old age or Retirement Securities." Conversely, white workers, who toiled in ostensibly much less important maintenance positions, 50 "receive these benefits and securities." The District of Columbia's Training School for the Feeble-Minded in Laurel, Maryland appeared similar to the Petersburg State Colony in that it, too, struggled with the problems of blacks committed to it as deviant. The staff psychologist reported that in the institution, opened in 1925, "of course" the patients resided in quarters segregated by sex and race.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Staff reported that "delinquent tendencies in the latter group were so strong that satisfactory adjustment at the Colony were [sic] 4 9 impossible. " 307 The effects of a dual wage scale, one for black employees and one for white ones, also negatively impacted the institution. In August 1939, only eight months after opening, a state investigation found "negroes are employed only as Attendants and Nurses. They receive a low wage, from $40 to $45 monthly, and work long hours a day." More importan...tly, "The institution does not give them or secure for them Accident Insurance, Old age or Retirement Securities." Conversely, white workers, who toiled in ostensibly much less important maintenance positions, 50 "receive these benefits and securities." The District of Columbia's Training School for the Feeble-Minded in Laurel, Maryland appeared similar to the Petersburg State Colony in that it, too, struggled with the problems of blacks committed to it as deviant. The staff psychologist reported that in the institution, opened in 1925, "of course" the patients resided in quarters segregated by sex and race.
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