Session 10: Advocacy and Leadership
Description
Objectives
- List some of the outstanding black nurse-midwives and their professional contributions
- List some of the outstanding black nurses and their professional contributions
- List some of the outstanding black doctors and their professional contributions
- List some of the outstanding black dentists and their professional contributions
- List some of the outstanding black public health professionals and their professional contributions
- Describe the role of advocacy in the lives of these black healthcare professional leaders and their impact on the profession as a whole
Connections
Readings
Dentistry
- Afro-Americans in Dentistry: Sequence and Consequence of Events
- Reviews by: Raf Alvarado
- The Growth and Development of the Negro in Dentistry in the United States
- The History of Chicago Black Dental Professionals, 1850-1983
- NDA II: The Story of America's Second National Dental Association pp. 73-219
- Dental Education at Meharry Medical College: Origin and Odyssey
- Profile of the Negro in American dentistry
General
- Charles Edwin Bentley: A Model for All Times
- A Century of Black Surgeons: The U.S.A. Experience (film)
- Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950
- One Doctor Daniel Hale Williams
- Ben Carson
- A Century of Black Surgeons: The U.S.A. Experience (film)
- The National Medical Association Demands Equal Opportunity: Nothing More, Nothing Less
- Mr. Harlem Hospital: Dr. Louis T. Wright: A Biography
- The History of the Negro in Medicine
- Black dentistry in the 21st century: June 23-27, 1991, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Who's Who in Black Dentistry in America
- Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
- Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?
Medicine
Nursing
- Early Black American Leaders in Nursing: Architects for Integration and Equality
- The Path We Tred: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1854-1994 pp. 17-48
- Pathfinders, a History of the Progress of Colored Graduate Nurses
- Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950
- NBNA: The History of the National Black Nurses Association, 1971-1999
- Black Nursing Pioneers, Leaders, and Organizers, 1770-1980
- Trailblazer: Negro Nurse in the American Red Cross