President and CEO, Truman Medical Center
Fine Arts Activity - Students will research health issues involved in creating in the arts. Students will determine practices for maintaining their health and using tools and materials in a safe manner while creating in the arts.
SS/ELA Activity -
1. Go to the internet and find the answers to the following questions by using a google search - Answers in parentheses
What was the first segregated hospital in the United States? (Georgia Infirmary)
If blacks were allowed into hospitals in the 1940's and 1950's, where would they most likely to be housed? (Attics or basements of the hospitals in hot or cold conditions)
What was the first black controlled hospital in the country? (Provident Hospital in Chicago)
Please describe the significance of the Simkins Vs. Moses H. Cone Hospital case of 1963? List three African American court cases that preceded this case that were trying to argue against the same type of legal principle. (Separate but equal- Brown Vs. Board of Education and two others).
What does the term "Negro Medical Ghetto" mean? Are black hospitals still thriving in this country today? If not, why not?
What was the first training facility in the United States for aspiring African American doctors? (Tuskegee Institute, 1892)
2. Go to the US National Library of Medicine web site and continue to the pioneers in academic surgery section then go to the African American surgeon’s home page to find a great section on the history of African American medicine. Please answer the following questions by reading through the site.
Who was the first PERSON in the world to perform heart surgery?
Who was the first African American to serve on the faculty of a medical school in the United States? What other areas was he a pioneer in?
Look up the biography of Lt.Col. Alexander T. Augusta and please make a brief list of his accomplishments in the field of medicine.
Duke University - http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/ - has a great little section on famous firsts in African American medicine. Students could write five famous firsts of AA med history!
The Kellog African American health care project has great website of early African American doctors during Civil Rights movement to current with their bios - www.med.umich.edu. Students could pick three and say why these particular ones inspired them with their stories.
History Makers has good concise website that has some early African American doctors at: www.thehistorymakers.com
