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Mental Illness in Black Community, 1700-2019: A Short History

WebIn the article below, Dr. Uchenna Umeh, a former San Antonio, Texas physician, briefly describes how mental health among African Americans was viewed …

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Black Panther Party’s Free Medical Clinics (1969-1975)

WebIn 1966 Huey Newton and Bobby Seale created the Black Panther Party (BPP) to fight police oppression of blacks in Oakland, California. Two years later the BPP …

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Contraband Hospital, 1862-1863: Health Care For the First

WebKnown as Contraband Camp, it contained one of the few hospitals that treated blacks in Washington, D.C. during the war and whose staff, including nurses and …

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National Medical Association (1895- ) •

WebThe National Medical Association (NMA) was founded in 1895 by African American physicians as an alternative to the white-only American Medical Association. It …

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Freedmen’s Hospital/Howard University Hospital (1862-- ) •

WebThe Freedmen’s Hospital was founded in 1862 in Washington, D.C. It was the first hospital of its kind to aid in the medical treatment of former slaves. Later it …

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Henrietta Lacks and the Debate Over the Ethics of Bio

WebIn the article below Clarence Spigner, DrPH., Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, briefly describes the saga …

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Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center (1968- ) •

WebThe Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center is a government-funded medical clinic that provides primary care services located in the heart of the Central District of …

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The Affordable Care Act (2010)

WebThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2020 expands health care coverage to 17 million Americans who were previously uninsured. This legislation is the most important …

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Meharry Medical College (1876- ) •

WebMeharry Medical College, founded in 1876 in Nashville, Tennessee, is the second oldest medical school for African Americans in the nation. The college was …

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Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center/Charles R. Drew

WebThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center opened in 1971 as a result of lobbying efforts by civil rights and antipoverty activists to bring a high quality medical …

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Homer G. Phillips Hospital (1937-1979)

WebThe hospital was opened in 1937, six years after the assassination of its benefactor and advocate Homer G. Phillips, a St. Louis, Missouri -based African …

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Georgia Infirmary (1832- ) •

WebGeorgia Infirmary (1832- ) The Georgia Infirmary was the first hospital for African Americans built in the United States. Chartered on December 24, 1832 “for the …

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Paul B. Cornely (1906-2002)

WebPaul B. Cornely is remembered today as a public health pioneer and civil rights leader whose activism contributed to the desegregation of national healthcare. Dr. …

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Solomon Carter Fuller (1872-1953)

WebSolomon Carter Fuller, an early 20th century psychiatrist, researcher, and medical educator, was born on August 11, 1872 in Monrovia, Liberia. His parents, …

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Bobby Wright (1934-1982)

WebBobby Eugene Wright, Pan-African clinical psychologist, mental health administrator, and theorist, was born March 1, 1934 in Anniston, Alabama. Reared in …

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Frances Cress Welsing (1935–2016)

WebFrances Cress Welsing, a psychiatrist best known for writing The Isis Papers, was born Frances Luella Cress in Chicago, Illinois, on March 18, 1935. Welsing, who …

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Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1932-1972)

WebActing on the presumption that rural southern blacks were generally more promiscuous and syphilitic than whites, and without sufficient funding to establish an …

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Vanessa Northington Gamble (1953- ) •

WebVanessa N. Gamble is the first African American woman to teach as a professor of medical humanities, health policy, and American civilization at the George …

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The Gondar College of Medical Sciences (1954- ) •

WebThe college, founded in 1954, is the oldest health professional training institute in Ethiopia. The medical college was located in Gondar in 1954 in part because …

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Pamela Sutton-Wallace (1969-)

WebPamela Sutton-Wallace is a healthcare executive. In 2022, she was appointed COO of Yale New Haven Health, Connecticut’s largest and most …

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Sherman A. James (1944- ) •

WebSherman A. James is a social epidemiologist and most notably known for the concept of “John Henryism.”. Most recently, Dr. James served as a research professor of …

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Louis Wade Sullivan (1933- ) •

WebAfter witnessing poverty and discrimination in Depression-era Georgia, Louis Wade Sullivan committed his career to education and public service, rising to become …

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