We Went to Mississippi: Nurses’ Civil Rights Activism of the Mid-1960s

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TitleWe Went to Mississippi: Nurses’ Civil Rights Activism of the Mid-1960s
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PIDvideo:1551
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ConferenceAmerican Philosophical Society Annual Meeting (2018)
speakerFairman, Julie
CONTENT DESCRIPTION
AbstractNurses, both white and black, were an active part of the Civil Rights Movement. How did they become activists and how do they confound medical historians?
NoteFurther reading: Fairman was the first nurse to deliver the Garrison Lecture in May of this same year: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/news/1103-fairman-first-nurse-to-deliver-garrison-lecture
LanguageEnglish (eng)
Subject (lcsh) Civil rights movement, History, 20th century
Subject (lcsh) Segregation, United States, Mississippi
Subject (lcsh) Nurses
Subject (lcsh) Activists, United States, 1960-1970.
Subject (lcsh) United States, Mississippi, History, 20th Century
Subject (local) APS Meeting Videos
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TypeMovingImage
GenreLecture
Formatvideorecording
Digital Originborn digitial
ORIGIN INFORMATION
Date Issued2018-11-10
PublisherAmerican Philosophical Society
PlacePhiladelphia, PA
PlaceUSA
PARENT COLLECTION
TitleAmerican Philosophical Society Archives. Series X.
Call NumberAPS.Archives
URLhttp://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
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