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TIL that, during the 1960s, many black civil rights protesters from Detroit were ‘diagnosed’ with schizophrenia (due to their 'hostile’ and 'aggressive’ behavior) and confined to asylums. Some protesters were locked up for more than thirty years and died in custody

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