Letter from Aquilla Fitzgerald to unidentified correspondent

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Aquilla Fitzgerald to unidentified correspondent
Description:
Fitzgerald discusses being forced by the government to retire from her job at the Department of Transportation because she was branded as "crazy" after exposing incompetence and corruption in the workplace. She talks about the founding of Americans Against Psychiatric and Psychological Abuse and how the government restricts access to documents in these cases. AAPPA is asking the Helsinki Committee on Human Rights for help getting hearings for their cases.
Creator:
Fitzgerald, Aquilla
Date:
[ca. 1979]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 1 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Judi Chamberlin Papers
Subjects:
Antipsychiatry
Employees--Dismissal of
Psychiatric disability evaluation
Extent:
3 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums768-b001-f013-i052
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Washington (D.C.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
mums768-b001-f013-i052