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4.5 Linear Feet (5 MB, 2 OS). |
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Transcripts are organized alphabetically by interviewee last name, followed by background files, which are unarranged. Tapes are organized by interview number, which corresponds to an alphabetical arrangement by interviewee last name. |
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Material entirely in English. |
| Summary |
The Kellogg African American Health Care Project Oral Histories are the result of a project carried out by the University of Michigan's Historical Center for the Health Sciences, 1997-2000 (interviews conducted 1997-1998), and sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to create and bring together resources relating to the African American health care experience in southeast Michigan from the 1940s through the 1960s. To this end, principal reseachers George Myers III and Ronald Amos and other U-M staff interviewed African American patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and reprsentatives from regional and national organizations for first-hand accounts concerning health care of the time period, as well as issues of racial discrimination, labor and migration patterns, and attitudes toward the health care system. The collection consists of transcripts and recordings for 41 interviews, plus background files of photocopied clippings and images for some of the interviewees. Interviewees discuss their lives and medical work, efforts to desegregate Detroit area hospitals, and social and economic conditions faced by African Americans, particularly in regard to health care. |
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Processing Information: Processed by Walter P. Reuther Library. Finding aid written by Rebecca Bizonet on May 13, 2016. |
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Collection is open for research. |
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Refer to the Walter P. Reuther Library Rules for Use of Archival Materials. RESTRICTIONS: Due to the personal nature of oral history, the Library prohibits use of the material in any way that infringes on individual right to privacy, or results in libelous statements or slander, in accordance with U.S. law. Proper credit must be given to the University of Michigan Medical School and the principal investigators in citing these oral history interviews. |
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Copies of the oral history interviews were deposited at three other area institutions: the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit; the Burton Historical Collection (Detroit Public Library); and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies (University of Michigan). The oral history interviews plus project administrative records are housed at the Bentley Historical Library as the Kellogg African American Health Care Project Records. Excerpts of the interview transcripts and audio clips are available online at the Kellogg African American Health Care Project website, https://www.med.umich.edu/haahc/. |
| Cite As: |
"Kellogg African American Health Care Project Oral Histories, [Interviewee Name] Interview, Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University" |
| Note |
The Kellogg African American Health Care Project Oral Histories are the result of a project carried out by the University of Michigan's Historical Center for the Health Sciences, 1997-2000 (interviews conducted 1997-1998), and sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to create and bring together resources relating to the African American health care experience in southeast Michigan from the 1940s through the 1960s. To this end, principal reseachers George Myers III and Ronald Amos and other U-M staff interviewed African American patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and reprsentatives from regional and national organizations for first-hand accounts concerning health care of the time period, as well as issues of racial discrimination, labor and migration patterns, and attitudes toward the health care system. |
| Summary |
The collection consists of transcripts and recordings for 41 interviews, plus background files of photocopied clippings and images for some of the interviewees. Interviewees discuss their lives and medical work, efforts to desegregate Detroit area hospitals, and social and economic conditions faced by African Americans, particularly in regard to health care. Interviews were conducted with the following 41 participants: William Anderson, Reginald Ayala, Arthur Boddie, Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, Henry Bryant, Alice Burton, Waldo Cain, James Collins, Claude and Vivienne Cooper (interviewed together), Gladys Dillard, George Gaines, Leon Gant, Herman Glass, Della Goodwin, Joseph Harris, Frank Iacobell, Horace Jefferson, Sidney Jenkins, Arthur Johnson, Rachel Keith, William Lawson, Josephine Love, Hayward Maben Jr., Berna Mason, Suesetta McCree, Dorothy Mottley, David Northcross, Ophelia Northcross, Marjorie Peebles-Meyers, Frank Raiford, Rev. Garther Roberson, Rev. Dr. S.L. Roberson, Elsie Smith, Fannie Starks, Lionel Swan, Natalia Tanner, Oretta Todd, Irma Webb, Charles Whitten, Charles Wright, and Watson Young. Interviewers were George Myers, Ronald Amos, and others from the University of Michigan Medical School. |
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African Americans -- Medical care
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African American nurses -- Michigan -- Detroit
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African American physicians -- Michigan -- Detroit
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African American dentists -- Michigan -- Detroit
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Discrimination in medical care
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Oral histories |
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Sound recordings |
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Amos, Ron Interviewer.
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University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine creator
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| Added Title |
Walter P. Reuther Library Oral History Collection
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| OCLC # |
951986972 |
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