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
- 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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