Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM

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Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM

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Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM is a digital exhibit, oral history project, and crowd-sourced collection of stories, images, and videos related to the historic and ongoing efforts to advance diversity and inclusion at Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and their affiliates.

This project was formerly titled "Equal Access: Oral Histories of Diversity and Inclusion at Harvard Medical School".

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Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Collection Items

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Edward Kravitz, Perspectives of Change
Oral history interview between oral historian Joan Ilacqua and Dr. Edward Kravitz, George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Taken 26 February 2015 at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts…

Portrait of Lewis Hayden, 19th Century
Lewis Hayden (December 2, 1811 - April 7, 1889) was a member of Boston's black community who had escaped slavery and arrived in Boston in 1846. Hayden, a noted abolitionist, ran a clothing store, and was elected to the Massachusetts House of…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Chester Pierce, Perspectives of Change
Oral history interview between oral historian Joan Ilacqua and Dr. Chester Pierce, Emeritus Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Taken 13 January 2015 Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts as part of Equal Access: Oral Histories of…

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Shirley Marks, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Shirley Marks, MD. Taken 13 March 2017 as part of Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM. Topics include growing up in…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with  Augustus White, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Augustus A. White III MD, PhD. Dr. White is the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School…

Oral history and transcript for an interview with J. Emilio Carrillo, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and J. Emilio Carrillo, MD. Taken 18 July 2017 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project. J. Emilio Carrillo, MD was born in Cuba and attended…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Andre Churchwell, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Andre Churchwell, MD. Andre L. Churchwell, MD, graduated from the Vanderbilt School of Engineering magna cum laude in 1975. He attended Harvard Medical School and earned his…

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Ernesto Gonzalez, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Ernesto Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, Professor of Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Taken 10 March 2015 as part of the Equal Access Oral History Project. Topics…

Oral History and transcript for an interview with Lisa Iezzoni, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Lisa Iezzoni, MD. Taken on 10 September 2015 as part of Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM, formerly the Equal Access…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, taken 2 May 2016 as part of Perspectives of Change. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey is president emerita and former CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and…

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Eve Higginbotham, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Eve j. Higginbotham, SM, MD, Vice Dean of Inclusion and Diversity at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Taken 20 September 2016 as part of Perspectives of Change,…

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Harold May,  Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Harold May, MD. Taken 9 April 2015 and 11 May 2015 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project.

Topics include growing up in Peekskils, New York,…

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Valerie Montgomery-Rice, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Valerie Montgomery-Rice. Dr. Montgomery-Rice is Dean and President of Morehouse School of Medicine.[Click here to go to full transcript.]

Oral history and transcript for an interview with John C. Norman, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua, Sami Fouad and John Norman, MD,

Taken in two parts on 12 June 2014 and 23 June 2014 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project.

Dr. Norman's oral…

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Howard Hiatt, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Howard Hiatt MD, Taken 19 February 2015 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project. Howard H. Hiatt MD was born in Patchogue, New York.…

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Alvin Crawford, Perspectives of Change
Alvin Crawford, MD, FACS, graduated cum laude from Tennesse State University in 1960, earning degrees in Chemistry and Music. In 1964, he became the first African American to graduate from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine.

Dr.…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Nancy Oriol, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Nancy Oriol. Taken 21 January 2015.[Click here to go to full transcript.]

Martin Robison Delany
Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was born in Virginia, his father was enslaved while his mother was a free woman. Delany applied to Harvard Medical School at age 38, and had applied to several medical schools. He was a student of Latin and Greek,…

William Augustus Hinton
William A. Hinton (1883-1959) was born on December 15, 1883 in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were both enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and graduated in 1905. Between undergrad and medical school, Hinton taught at Walden University in…

Mildred Fay Jefferson
Mildred Fay Jefferson (1926-2010) was born on April 4, 1926 in Pittsburg, Texas. She earned her bachelor's degree from Texas College at age 16, and earned her master's degree from Tuft's University in 1947.

She entered Harvard Medical School as…

Louis T. Wright and colleagues at patient bedside, Harlem Hospital, New York, N.Y.
Louis Tompkins Wright, MD (1891-1952) was born on July 23, 1891, in La Grange, Georgia, was son of physician Dr. Ceah Ketcham Wright. Dr. Wright died when Louis was four years old, and his mother, Lula Tompkins Wright, later remarried another…

Oral History and a Transcript for an Interview with Alvin Poussaint, Perspectives of Change
Alvin F. Poussaint is Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Director of the Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs at Harvard Medical School. Images are used with permission for Perspectives of Change: The Story…

John Van Surly DeGrasse
John Van Surly DeGrasse (1825-1868) was a doctor who established a medical practice in Boston in 1854. He joined the Massachusetts Medical Society on August 12, 1854 and became the first African-American to belong to a medical society in…

"Colored Waiting Room" sign, 1943
A sign used to designate a waiting room for people of color at a Greyhound Bus Terminal in Rome, Georgia. Taken by Esther Bubley, September 1943.

Journal of the National Medical Association
The Journal of the National Medical Association, 1909. Source: https://archive.org/details/journalofnationa01nati/page/n1.

W. E. B. Du Bois photograph from the Harvard College Class of 1890 Class Book, 1890
[W. E. B. Du Bois photograph from the Harvard College Class of 1890 Class Book, Pach Bros., New York, New York, United States. Courtesy of Harvard University Archives, Harvard University Archives HUD 290.04 pf, and available via HOLLIS:…

The Soiling of Old Glory, 1976
The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken by Stanley Forman during the Boston busing crisis in 1976. The photograph depicts Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black man, lawyer and civil rights activist Ted Landsmark, with a…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Carmon Davis, MD, MPH. Dr. Davis is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital. She graduated Harvard Medical School in 1990.

Dr.…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Kathryn Tayo Hall, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Kathryn Tayo Hall, PhD, MPH. Dr. Hall is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. [Click here to go to transcript.]

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Thomas Sequist, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Thomas Sequist, MD, MPH. Dr. Sequist is Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Sequist is chief quality and safety officer at…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Fidencio Saldaña, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Fidencio Saldaña, MD, MPH. Dr. Saldaña is Dean for Students at Harvard Medical School and oversees the Office of Student Affairs. Dr. Saldaña is a clinical cardiologist at…

Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Sierra Washington, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Sierra Washington, MD, MSPH. Dr. Washington is Associate Clinical Professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine in the Department of Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Washington also…

The Medical Committee for Human Rights Pamphlet, undated
A pamphlet created by the Medical Committee for Human Rights, undated. Courtesy of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans, crmvets.org.

Paula Johnson
Grayce A. Young Family Professor in Women's Health at Harvard Medical School. From left: Amos Hostetter, Paula Johnson, Barbara Hostetter and Jeffrey S. Flier, by Gretchen Ertl, created April 25, 2016. Courtesy of Harvard Medical School:…
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