African American Hospitals in North Carolina

39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967

Phoebe Ann Pollitt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:30th Sep '17

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African American Hospitals in North Carolina cover

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