African American Hospitals in North Carolina

39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967

Phoebe Ann Pollitt
eISBN-13: 9781476630847

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<p> 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.</p><p> 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.</p>

ISBNs 9781476630847, 9781476667249, 9781476630847
Language English
Number of Pages 212