{"id":30443,"date":"2014-01-26T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=30443"},"modified":"2014-01-26T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T19:14:06","slug":"100-years-of-virginias-central-state-hospital-records-to-be-posted-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=30443","title":{"rendered":"100 Years of Virginia&#8217;s Central State Hospital Records to be Posted Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The following excerpt is from University of Texas at Austin:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/digital-archive-to-house-100-years-of-historical-documents-from-world-s-first-black-mental-institution\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Central-State-Hospital-Female-Patients-250pw.jpg\" alt=\"Central-State-Hospital-Female-Patients-Courtesy of the Institute for Urban Policy Research &amp; Analysis\" width=\"250\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30444\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Newswise \u2014 AUSTIN, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A century\u2019s worth of historical records from Central State Hospital in Virginia \u2013 the world\u2019s first black mental hospital \u2013 will soon be available online in a digital archive created by King Davis, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research &#038; Analysis, and an interdisciplinary team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1868, Central State Hospital, formerly Central State Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane, was created in response to the newly freed slaves after the Civil War. The mounds of forgotten materials offer a rare glimpse into what life was like for African Americans following the Civil War to the post-civil rights era. Without Davis\u2019 intervention, the documents would have been shredded due to confusion over Virginia\u2019s records retention laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/digital-archive-to-house-100-years-of-historical-documents-from-world-s-first-black-mental-institution\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/researchbuzz.me\/2014\/01\/24\/ohio-university-pulp-magazines-yearbooks-more-friday-morning-buzz-january-24-2014\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+researchbuzz%2Fmain+%28ResearchBuzz%29\">ResearchBuzz<\/a> for the heads-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from University of Texas at Austin: Newswise \u2014 AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 A century\u2019s worth of historical records from Central State Hospital in Virginia \u2013 the world\u2019s first black mental hospital \u2013 will soon be available online <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=30443\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  100 Years of Virginia&#8217;s Central State Hospital Records to be Posted Online<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-hospitals","category-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30446,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30443\/revisions\/30446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}