Oral history and transcript for an interview with Harold May, Perspectives of Change

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Harold May, Perspectives of Change

May, Harold

Diversity and Inclusion

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.

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)

Images courtesy of Harold May

2015 May 11

2015 April 9

Ilacqua, Joan (interviewer)

May, Harold (interviewee)

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

Joan Ilacqua

Harold May

Boston, Massachusetts

02:16:05 and 01:57:07

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