African American Hospitals in North Carolina: 39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967

African American Hospitals in North Carolina: 39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967
ISBN-10
1476667241
ISBN-13
9781476667249
Category
Social Science
Pages
212
Language
English
Published
2017-09-29
Publisher
McFarland
Author
Phoebe Ann Pollitt

Description

Winner, Historical Book Award—North Carolina Society of Historians “Vivid insight…fascinating”—The North Carolina Historical Review. Untold thousands of black North Carolinians suffered or died during the Jim Crow era because they were denied admittance to white-only hospitals. With little money, scant opportunities for professional education and few white allies, African American physicians, nurses and other community leaders created their own hospitals, schools of nursing and public health outreach efforts. The author chronicles the important but largely unknown histories of more than 35 hospitals, the Leonard Medical School and 11 hospital-based schools of nursing established in North Carolina, and recounts the decades-long struggle for equal access to care and equal opportunities for African American health care professionals.

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