Apr 2 2025

MNHRC presents: Love, loyalty, labor and life

MNHRC Spring Speaker Series

April 2, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Love, loyalty, labor and life: The women of Frederick Douglas Memorial Hospital and Training School

Using an array of visual and textual materials from the archives of Philadelphia's Douglass Hospital School of Nursing, this presentation will center the important role of Black women in the establishment and growth of Douglass Hospital.

Situated at the intersection of  African American, medical and women’s history, this presentation underscores the significance of Black women’s unpaid and underpaid labor in addressing the health, spiritual and material needs of their communities at a time when resources and opportunities for Black Philadelphians were scarce and in high demand.

Speaker:

Hafeeza Anchrum, PhD, RN, postdoctoral fellow in the Race, Science and Society program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Anchrum also co-manages the “Penn Medicine and Afterlives of Slavery Project.

This event is hosted by the Midwest Nursing History Research Center.

Contact

Jojo Galvan Mora

Date posted

Mar 21, 2025

Date updated

Mar 21, 2025