I am pleased to announce that my research on Jim Crow discrimination and segregation in healthcare has been selected for inclusion in the Delaware Humanities Speakers Bureau catalog for 2024. This opportunity allows me to share my findings with a broad audience and shed light on a largely unexamined aspect of our history. During the…
Category: Health Care
Integrating Delaware Nursing Schools
I am researching the struggle for equality in healthcare, a lesser-known dimension of the civil rights movement. Although the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to “separate but equal” in public schools in 1954, segregation persisted for years in medicine. However, by the mid-1960s, a combination of protests, federal legislation, and judicial rulings had significantly…
Discussing the History of African American Health Care
For years, I have studied African American health care, seeking to understand the history of practices before Black Americans gained access to mainstream medicine. This fieldwork has given me the opportunity to interview nurses, aides, physicians, and tradition bearers in communities across Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. So when the Association for the Study…
COVID-19 Cases in Harford County Compared to Flu Pandemic of 1918-19
Since the nation crossed a grim milestone of one million covid deaths on May 17, 2022, I have been examining how the toll from this pandemic compares to the influenza outbreak of 1918-19 in Harford County.((Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press, US Deaths from COVID hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years in)) COVID-19 According…