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'Willowbrook Mile' a place to learn from an ugly history, build progress
WILLOWBROOK, Staten Island (WABC) -- The new Willowbrook Mile on the College of Staten Island campus is a place to learn from an ugly history and to build on the progress. Fifty years ago ...
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‘Our advocacy must continue’; Community marks opening of Willowbrook Mile, but fight goes on for developmentally disabled
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A nightmare came to an official end 35 years ago, and so many who helped wake up a nation to the horror of the Willowbrook State School gathered at the College of Staten ...
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These photos exposed the horrors of Willowbrook State School more than 50 years ago
The Willowbrook Mile. “The Mile is designed to preserve the site’s history, and to create a visionary presence that commemorates the social justice and deinstitutionalization movement to ...