God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24 by David Bakke

God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24


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God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24 David Bakke
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press


Police found John Doe No. 24 in the early morning hours of October 11, 1945, in Jacksonville, Illinois. Unable to communicate, the deaf and mute teenager was labeled “feeble minded” and sentenced by a judge to the nightmarish jumble of the Lincoln State School and Colony in Jacksonville. He remained in the Illinois mental health care system for over thirty years and died at the Sharon Oaks Nursing Home in Peoria on November 28, 1993. Deaf, mute, and later blind, the young black man survived institutionalized hell: beatings, hunger, overcrowding, and the dehumanizing treatment that characterized state institutions through the 1950s. In spite...

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