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I'm Tanya Mosley.

And my guest today is journalist and author Antonia Hilton. She's written a new book called Madness, Race and Insanity

in a Jim Crow asylum. And in it Hilton traces one of the last segregated asylums in the nation.

Crownsville Hospital in Maryland, built in 1911 from the ground up by 12 black men who would

later become patients there, some spending their entire lives in the hospital.

As Hilton writes in her book, by the end of the 20th century, the asylum faded from view as prisons

and jails became America's new focus to house the mentally ill.

Hilton, who was a journalist with NBC, spent more than a decade of

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