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Primary sources are a great way to develop critical thinking.
These artifacts present evidence in a pure form, demonstrating what occurred in a specific moment.
This allows learners to formulate questions and interpret events themselves.
Through inquiry learners begin to distinguish between superficial and critical analysis.
The collection presented here consists of items I pulled together to supplement the American History In Mobile: Black Hospitals Reader in my Work Samples.
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Reflex hammer engraved with label, "Colored Female City Hospital," can be found at the Mobile Medical Museum. The old City Hospital still stands on St. Anthony Street in downtown Mobile, Alabama and now houses the Mobile County Health Department.
Political Cartoon by Herblock published in 1966. A Google search for "Herblock political cartoons on segregation" will bring up several examples that may be of interest.
Clinic Hours Sign for the segregated Lallie Kemp Charity Hospital sometime before 1965. It is on display in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture.
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Black Doctors May Not Have Use Of State Institution Supported By Tax-Payers
Plaindealer
Kansas City, Kansas
November 3, 1939
Plaindealer
Kansas City, Kansas
October 26, 1945
Black Veterans Jim-Crowed at Wadsworth Hospital
Negro Star
Wichita, Kansas
July 2, 1948
OTHER RESOURCES
Library Of Congress "Using Primary Resources"
Sister Maria, R.S.M. 1964, Journal of National Medical Association article on St. Martin de Porres Hospital
The above newspaper clippings and many more were found at: African Amerian Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998.” Readex. A Division of NewsBank, 2017, http://www.readex.com/content/african-american-newspapers-series-1-and-2-1827-1998. Accessed 08 Feb. 2017
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