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Susan Bartlett Foote tells the story of those who made the crusade a success: Engla Schey, the catalyst Reverend Arthur Foote, a modest visionary who guided Unitarians to constructive advocacy Genevieve Steefel, an inveterate patient activist and Geri Hoffner, an intrepid reporter whose twelve-part series for the Minneapolis Tribune galvanized the public.
This book chronicles that remarkable undertaking inspired and carried forward by ordinary people under the political leadership of Luther Youngdahl, a Swedish Republican who was the state’s governor from 1946 to 1951. She acquired the knowledge and passion that would lead to “The Crusade for Forgotten Souls,” a campaign to reform the deplorable condition of mental institutions in Minnesota.
She would work among people who were locked away under the shameful label “insane,” called inmates-and numbered more than 12,000 throughout the state. In 1940 Engla Schey, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, took a job as a low-paid attendant at Anoka State Hospital, one of Minnesota’s seven asylums.
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