African American Hospitals in North Carolina
39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
Published:30th Sep '17
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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.
“Vivid insight...fascinating”—The North Carolina Historical Review.
- Winner of Historical Book Award—North Carolina Society of Historians 2018 (United States)
ISBN: 9781476667249
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
Weight: 295g
212 pages