Rae Unzicker

Rae Unzicker (b. Carole Renetta Engles, August 20, 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 attended University of Kansas in 1966–1967, despite suffering a hospitalization during that year.

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

Notes

  1. "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

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