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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:America's Black Hospital Movement: Book Reading & Performance
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SUMMARY:America's Black Hospital Movement: Book Reading & Performance
DESCRIPTION:<p>The Arts and Humanities Initiative at HMS and Countway Library invite you to celebrate the release of an important new book:&nbsp;</p><p><em><strong>The Houston Negro Hospital: The Untold Legacy of Riverside General</strong></em> by Carlton Houston&nbsp;</p><p>Featuring a special performance by violinist Grant Houston</p><p>At the height of racial and political tensions in early twentieth-century Houston, two unlikely figures became allies. Dr. William M. Drake, a pioneering surgeon and Black community leader, and Joseph Cullinan, a white oil magnate and founder of the company that became TEXACO, united in a desperate effort to save a hospital that symbolized hope. The Houston Negro Hospital was born from America's Black hospital movement. Dedicated on Juneteenth 1926, it embodied a bold experiment to bring dignity and health care access to a community that was systematically denied both in the Jim Crow South.&nbsp;</p><p>Journalist and storyteller Carlton Houston—whose ancestors played a role in this remarkable heritage- reveals the untold, human drama behind the institution that would become Riverside General. Discover the vision, conflict, and resilience that shaped a century of health care through the struggle of those determined to save lives.</p><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="1a80b31b-3c75-4336-b302-ae28af04dcaa" data-view-mode="hwp_large" data-align="center">&nbsp;</drupal-media>
LOCATION:Room 103, Countway Library
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