EVENT: Charleston Area Branch ASALH Membership Meeting and Program
DATE: MAY 14, 2022 1-3PM
LOCATION: Virtual via Zoom
DESCRIPTION; Branch Meeting and Panel Presentation
TITLE: “Public Institutions, Pharmacists and Physicians: Racial Inequities in Healthcare in South Carolina, 1790-1950”
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
This interdisciplinary panel will address health disparities by race in 18th, 19th and 20th century South Carolina utilizing diverse research methodologies in uncovering the deeply troubled yet important history of racial inequities in health care in South Carolina. Presenters will: examine the essential role of enslaved workers in America’s first public orphanage explore the life and career of Dr. John McFarland during the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries and; discuss the reach history of African American medical institutions and the paucity of official records in archival repositories.
PRESENTERS
Dr. Felice Knight, Assistant Professor History Department, The Citadel
Dr. Brian Fors, Curator Waring Historical Library, MUSC
Lahnice McFall Hollister, Independent Scholar and Genealogist
PROGRAM AGENDA
1:00 Welcome and Call to Order and Lift Every Voice and Sing
1:10 Officers / Committee Reports
1:45 Panel Presentation
2:15 Q&A
2:30 Announcements
Charleston Area Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 