Dr. Cyril Spann
Dr. Cyril Spann was born in this South Carolina city in 1916.
What is Chester, SC?
The McClaren Medical Shelter was founded in 1949 in this South Carolina city.
What is Greenville, SC?
Black midwives delivered most African American babies during this time period.
What is the late 1800s–1950s?
This was the first full-time public health role Modjeska Simkins held in South Carolina.
What is the first full-time African American public health worker in SC?
This 1969 hospital strike in South Carolina lasted about two months.
What is the Charleston Hospital Strike?
Dr. Spann was the first formally trained Black surgeon in this state.
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This physician founded the shelter and invested $15,000 of his own money.
Who is Dr. Edward E. McClaren?
This term described primary childbirth caregivers in rural segregated communities.
What are “granny midwives”?
She was removed from this organization after refusing to succumb to intimidation.
What is the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association?
The strike resulted in increased medical wages and this financial reform.
What is salary transparency?
He served as Chief of Staff at this historic hospital that treated African Americans during segregation.
What is Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital?
The shelter delivered over 200 of these and performed hundreds of surgeries.
What are births?
This South Carolina midwife delivered over 800 babies and highlighted rural healthcare inequality.
Who is Maude E. Callen?
She helped prevent mass starvation in these two majority-Black counties.
What are Clarendon County and Orangeburg County?
This civil rights leader visited Charleston and helped bring national attention to the strike.
Who is Coretta Scott King?
After this hospital closed, he opened this type of medical business two doors down.
What is a private practice?
Since 2022, this organization has preserved the shelter and repurposed it into the McClaren Institute for Health and Quality of Life.
What is the Urban League of the Upstate?
Founded in 1991, this organization works to reduce infant mortality in the Pee Dee region.
What is Pee Dee Healthy Start?
Simkins played a major role in this school desegregation case that became part of Brown v. Board of Education.
What is Briggs v. Elliott?
This South Carolina governor opposed many civil rights efforts during this era (not to be confused with Ronald McNair).
Who is Robert E. McNair?
Dr. Spann worked in both segregated and this newly integrated type of hospital system.
What are desegregated hospitals?
The shelter was created because Black patients were denied this at white hospitals during Jim Crow.
What is equal medical access?
Respiratory illness and infant mortality still occur at higher rates in these types of communities today.
What are predominantly Black and rural communities?
She opened one of the only safe rooming facilities for Black travelers listed in this historic travel guide.
What is The Negro Motorist Green Book?
Debate: Is it ethical for workers to go on strike?
The best response wins