Oral history and transcript for an interview with Harold May, Perspectives of Change
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Title
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Harold May, Perspectives of Change
Subject
May, Harold
Diversity and Inclusion
Description
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, attending Harvard College, training at Harvard Medical School, entering the Air Corps and becoming part of the Tuskegee Airmen program, completing a surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, eye surgery, working in Haiti at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, serving as Director of Community Health at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Medical Director of the Wrentham Developmental Center, and as Founder of FAMILY, Inc. a non-profit which creates secure and nurturing environments of mutual supports in which all children and families can thrive.
Topics include growing up in Peekskils, New York, attending Harvard College, training at Harvard Medical School, entering the Air Corps and becoming part of the Tuskegee Airmen program, completing a surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, eye surgery, working in Haiti at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, serving as Director of Community Health at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Medical Director of the Wrentham Developmental Center, and as Founder of FAMILY, Inc. a non-profit which creates secure and nurturing environments of mutual supports in which all children and families can thrive.
Creator
Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) (repository)
Source
Images courtesy of Harold May
Date
2015 May 11
2015 April 9
Contributor
Ilacqua, Joan (interviewer)
May, Harold (interviewee)
Rights
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Is Part Of
Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM
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Interviewer
Joan Ilacqua
Interviewee
Harold May
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Duration
02:16:05 and 01:57:07
Bit Rate/Frequency
4.6 Mbps
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Citation
Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM and Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) (repository), “Oral history and transcript for an interview with Harold May, Perspectives of Change,” OnView, accessed May 11, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/index.php/items/show/18139.
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