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“Everyone wants our cotton pickers”: Industrial Therapy, Involuntary Sterilization, and Black Mental Health at the State Hospital at Goldsboro, North Carolina 1880-1960

Description/Abstract:	Background The state hospital at Goldsboro opened in 1880 as North Carolina’s first institution to serve the Black mentally ill, and was the second such institution to open in the American South. And while there is a growing historiography on...
Date:	August 1-2, 2024

Lincoln health care provider with patient

Description/Abstract: A health care provider at Lincoln Community Health Center examines a patient.

Date: undated
Danny O. Jacobs

Description/Abstract: Danny Jacobs was Chair of the Duke Department of Surgery from 2003 to 2014.

Date: undated

Civilian Public Service worker with a patient on Meyer Ward

Description/Abstract:	Charles Elliott, C.P.S. worker, assisting a patient with speech correction. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under the...
Date:	1944

Nursing student V. Baker measuring the length of an infant

Description/Abstract:	Uniformed nursing student V. Baker measures the length of an infant. An African-American woman holds the infant's foot.
Date:	undated

Haywood Brown

Description/Abstract:	Dr. Haywood Brown was Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 2002 to 2016.
Date:	undated

Louis Sullivan at Department of Surgery event

Description/Abstract:	Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health & Human Services during the H.W. Bush administration, seated at table with Dr. David Sabiston in the background. Dr. Sullivan was the keynote speaker for this meeting.
Date:	undated

Social Services staff of Duke Hospital

Description/Abstract:	Duke Hospital staff of the Social Service Division. The Division of Social Services was founded on September 1, 1937 with the support of Ms. Doris Duke. During World War II, the Social Service Division worked with the American Red Cross to assist...
Date:	undated

Joanne A.P. Wilson

Description/Abstract:	Joanne A.P. Wilson graduated from the Duke University School Of Medicine in 1973, becoming the second African-American woman to graduate from Duke's medical school. She joined the Duke faculty in 1986 as Associate Professor and Associate Chief of...
Date:	undated

School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

Description/Abstract: Nursing faculty member using stethoscope on an African American child.

Date: 1948