Willie Stamps: Remembering the Family Tragedy at Harford Memorial Hospital
This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital
In this 2019 oral history excerpt, Willie Stamps recalls the day he lost his newborn son Carlos and wife Patricia due to practices and technology failures at Harford Memorial Hospital. He explains how the hospital's segregated practices led to Carlos' and Patricia's deaths. [Interviewer: Michael Brown, 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…