Leon Grimes: Segregation, Dr. George Stansbury and Harford Memorial Hospital
This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital
In this oral history clip, Leon Grimes recalls the circumstances surrounding segregation and desegregation at Harford Memorial Hospital in the 1960s. He also talks about Dr. George Stansbury, an African American physician who provided health care to the black community in Havre de Grace for decades and was the presiding physician for Patricia Stamps. [Interviewer: Mike Dixon, Harford Community College]
This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital
The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital
Born in 1940, Charles "Willie" Stamps grew up as a person of color in rural Mississippi. As a child, Stamps' family saved enough money and bought a small apartment house in Chicago. By the 1950s, many in the family had joined the Great Migration and…