Letter from Mental Patients' Liberation Front to Editor of the Boston Herald-American

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Title:
Letter from Mental Patients' Liberation Front to Editor of the Boston Herald-American
Description:
Members of the Mental Patients' Liberation Front express their outrage at the paper's coverage of a nurses' strike at the Institute of Mental Health in Cranston, Rhode Island; the story, featuring National Guardsmen called in to take care of patients, make it clear that mental hospitals are prisons by another name.
Creator:
Mental Patients Liberation Front
Addressee:
Boston herald
Date:
September 18, 1979
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Letters to the editor
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 3 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Judi Chamberlin Papers
Subjects:
Mentally ill
Strikes and lockouts--Nursing
Extent:
2 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums768-b003-f023-i013
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Place of origin:
Cambridge (Mass.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
mums768-b003-f023-i013