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In 1973, Dr C Vincent Bakeman and Mrs Doris M Lomax gathered on the South Side of Chicago with a group of enthusiastic community advocates who all shared one common goalThis goal was to address the lack of mental health care services for African Americans: specifically, for African-American males who were stricken with mental illness, disability, and/or incarceration A study conducted by the Illinois Department of Mental Health had found that the highest recidivism rate for the mentally ill in the state was among young African-American males living on the South Side of Chicago

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