This program examines the nature of health care for African Americans prior to the passage of modern Civil Rights legislation in the mid-1960s. As people of color struggled with medical needs, they also grappled on another front—segregation and discrimination in the medical system. The program seeks to understand this little-known history by spotlighting the unexplored story on Delmarva, while placing it in the larger regional and national context.

Topics include the contributions of African American doctors, nurses, and caregivers; the advances of the Black hospital system; the unique narrative on Delmarva; the struggles by activists to overcome racism; and the movement for equality in medicine and health.

This program has been made possible in part by Delaware Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

Adults. Registration requested.