![Willaim G. Anderson](images/bios/small/anders2.jpg) |
William G. Anderson
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Defines osteopathic medicine and discusses
his role in the Civil Rights Movement |
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Biography |
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![Reginald P. Ayala](images/bios/small/ayala2.gif) |
Reginald P. Ayala
Hospital Administrator |
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![Arthur W. Boddie](images/bios/small/boddie2.jpg) |
Arthur W. Boddie
Physician |
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Excerpt
1: Talks about hospital integration in Detroit
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Excerpt
2: Discusses the Fight for Freedom Dinner |
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Biography |
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![Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell](images/bios/small/caldwel2.JPG) |
Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell
Public Health Nurse Administrator |
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Excerpt:
Discusses the importance of education for improving
community health |
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Biography |
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![Henry Bryant](images/bios/small/bryant2.jpg) |
Henry
Bryant Jr.
Physician |
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Talks
about other African American physicians in the Ann
Arbor/Ypsilanti area and whether there should be
African American hospitals |
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Biography |
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![Alice Burton](images/bios/small/burton2.jpg) |
Alice Burton
Community resident, widow of DeWitt T.
Burton, co-founder of Burton Memorial Hospital |
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Excerpt:
Talks about Burton Mercy Hospital as an example
of the demise of black hospitals. Narrator recalls
her feeling about the hospital being torn down.
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Biography |
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![Waldo L. Cain](images/bios/small/cain2.jpg) |
Waldo L. Cain
Physician |
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Excerpt
1: Discusses technologically inferior black hospitals |
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Excerpt
2: Discusses how African American physicians forced
hospitals to begin reform |
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Biography |
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![James W. Collins](images/bios/small/collin2.jpg) |
James W. Collins
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Talks about role models and their influence on his
education |
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Biography |
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![Claude and Vivienne Cooper](images/bios/small/cooper2.jpg) |
Claude and Vivienne Cooper
Pharmacists |
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Excerpt:
Talks about the limited professional opportunities
available for blacks who were pharmacists during
the 1940s-60s |
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Biography |
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![Gladys B. Dillard](images/bios/small/dillar2.jpg) |
Gladys B. Dillard
Public Health Nurse |
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Excerpt:
Discusses segregation in nursing education and being
the first African American nursing graduate of Wayne
State University |
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Biography |
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![George Gaines](images/bios/small/gaine2.jpg) |
George
Gaines Jr.
Clinical/Medical Social Worker |
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Excerpt:
Discusses the political implications of the bed-reduction
plan during the early 1970s |
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![Leon Gant](images/bios/small/gant2.jpg) |
Leon Gant
Dentist |
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Excerpt:
Discusses increasing minority enrollment in dentistry
and the underlying quota system in the 1970s |
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![Herman J. Glass, Sr.](images/bios/small/glass2.gif) |
Herman
J. Glass Sr.
Hospital Administrator |
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"white" institutions |
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![Delta Goodwin](images/bios/small/goodwi2.jpg) |
Della
Goodwin
Nurse and Dean |
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Excerpt:
Discusses hospital bed reduction in southeastern
Michigan and the founding location of Southwest
Detroit Hospital |
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Biography |
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![Joseph B. Harris, D.D.S.](images/bios/small/harris2.gif) |
Joseph
B. Harris
Dentist |
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Excerpt:
Gives some insight into the use of alternative and
home remedies for dental care by some Detroit residents,
as well as some of the folklore behind such uses.
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![](icobell%20croped%20image.jpg) |
Frank P. Iacobell
Hospital Administrator |
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Excerpt:
Discusses implementing job training and advancement
programs for unionized, primarily minority, employees
at Hutzel Hospital during the early 1960s |
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![Horace L. Jefferson](images/bios/small/jeffer2.jpg) |
Horace L. Jefferson
Dentist |
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Excerpt:
Discusses some of his educational experiences at
the University of Michigan as well as the attitudes
people held about black hospitals |
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![Sidney B. Jenkins](images/bios/small/jenkin2.jpg) |
Sidney B. Jenkins
Psychiatrist |
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Excerpt:
Discusses the involvement of an African American
proprietary hospital in the establishment of a community
mental health center |
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Biography |
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![Arthur Johnson, Ph.D.](images/bios/small/johnson2.JPG) |
Arthur
Johnson
Director, NAACP |
![](_themes/aakell8/mauv0005.gif) | Excerpt: Institutional racism/discrimination in health care in Detroit |
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![Rachel B. Keith](images/bios/small/keith2.jpg) |
Rachel B. Keith
Physician |
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Excerpt
1: Discusses some of the reasons African Americans
are reluctant to participate in research |
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Excerpt
2: Discusses her ingredient for success as a physician |
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![William E. Lawson](images/bios/small/lawson2.jpg) |
William E. Lawson
Optometrist |
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Excerpt:
Discusses the establishment of the Optometric Institute
and Center of Detroit |
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Biography |
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![Josephine Love](images/bios/small/love2.jpg) |
Josephine
Love
Museum Director; widow of William Thomas
Love, Asst. Medical Examiner |
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Excerpt:
Discusses the Seminar Society founded by her late
husband and the relationship African American physicians
had with the community |
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Biography |
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![Hayward Maben, Jr.](images/bios/small/mabin2.jpg) |
Hayward
Maben Jr.
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Discusses some of his undergraduate and professional
medical experiences |
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Biography |
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![Berna C. Mason](images/bios/small/mason2.jpg) |
Berna C. Mason
State of Michigan, Office of Financial and Administrative Service |
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Excerpt:
Discusses her relationship with Mother Bracey, an
informal neighborhood health provider |
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Biography |
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![Suesetta T. McCree](images/bios/small/mcree2.jpg) |
Suesetta T. McCree
Occupational Therapist |
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Excerpt:
Discusses the field of occupational therapy and
some of her educational experiences |
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Dorothy
Mottley
Public Health Nurse |
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Excerpt:
Opinions/observations regarding the demise
of black proprietary hospitals |
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Biography |
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![David C. Northcross, Jr.](images/bios/small/north2.jpg) |
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![Ophelia B. Northcross](images/bios/small/onorth2.jpg) |
Ophelia B. Northcross
Nurse and Hospital Administrator |
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Excerpt:
Discusses her migration to Detroit and racial discrimination
in finding employment in health care |
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![Marjorie Peebles-Meyers, M.D.](images/bios/small/peebles-myers2.gif) |
Marjorie
Peebles-Meyers
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Discusses how her medical school experience was
affected by her African American identity |
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![Frank P. Raiford, III](images/bios/small/raifo2.jpg) |
Frank
P. Raiford III
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Talks about his educational experiences at the University
of Michigan |
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Biography |
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![The Reverend Garther Roberson, Jr.](images/bios/small/roberson2.JPG) |
Garther
Roberson Jr.
Minister |
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Excerpt:
Talks about the support system in place to help
family members who migrated from the South to Ypsilanti |
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![The Reverend Doctor S.L. Roberson](images/bios/small/rober-sl2.jpg) |
S.L.
Roberson
Minister |
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Excerpt:
Discusses the connection between health and religious
beliefs |
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Elsie
Smith
Community resident |
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Excerpt:
Discusses attitudes and beliefs about health held
by some African Americans which may be passed on
to other generations |
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![Fannie L. Starks](images/bios/small/stark2.jpg) |
Fannie L. Starks
Nurse |
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Excerpt:
Discusses segregation in medical/nursing education
and the quality of care in black hospitals |
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![Lionel F. Swan](images/bios/small/swan2.jpg) |
Lionel F. Swan
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Discusses whether integration caused the demise
of black hospitals in Detroit |
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![Natalia M. Tanner](images/bios/small/tanner2.jpg) |
Natalia M. Tanner
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Discusses some of her educational experiences at
Meharry Medical College and her professional experience
with black hospitals in Detroit |
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![Dr. Oretta Mae Todd, Ph.D.](images/bios/small/todd2.gif) |
Oretta
Mae Todd
Nurse and Dean |
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"white" institutions |
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![I. Clara Webb](images/bios/small/webb2.jpg) |
I. Clara Webb
Nurse |
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Excerpt:
Discusses the perceptions and attitudes of patients
toward black nurses, as well as the racial mix among
patients and employees at Harper Hospital |
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![Charles F. Whitten](images/bios/small/whitt2.jpg) |
Charles F. Whitten
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Talks about organizing the community program on
sickle cell disease in Detroit |
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Biography |
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![Dr. Charles H. Wright, M.D.](images/bios/small/wright2.gif) |
Charles
H. Wright
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Individual counter-actions made against segregation
in "white" institutions |
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![Dr. Watson Young, M.D.](images/bios/small/young2.gif) |
Watson
Young
Physician |
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Excerpt:
Observations regarding the demise of black proprietary
hospitals |
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