Rae Unzicker
Rae Unzicker (b. Carole Renetta Engles, ca. 1948 - March 22, 2001) was a civil rights activist and advocate for the rights of persons with psychiatric disabilities.
Biography
Carole Renetta Engles was born in 1948, and grew up in Kansas.[1] She graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Kansas in 1970, despite suffering a number of hospitalizations during that those years.
In 1979 she founded the "South Dakota Mental Health Advocacy Project" to work on the rights of psychiatric patients and persons with psychiatric conditions.[1]
Awards and Recognition
- Outstanding Woman in America, 1987, Women's Day Magazine
- Appointed by Bill Clinton to National Council on Disability, 1995
Notes
- 1 2 "Rae Unzicker Papers, 1967-2000" MS 818, (Finding Aid), Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (last visited Oct. 19, 2015).
References
- "A Civil Rights Pioneer Passes: Tribute to Rae Unzicker, NARPA, The Rights Tenet, Spring 2001 (available at http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums818.html)
- "Rae Unzicker Papers, 1967-2000", Collection at UMass Amherst, Special Collections and University Archives (finding aid available at http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums818.html)
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