Willie Stamps: Birth of a Civil Rights Leader
This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital
In this 2019 oral history excerpt, Willie Stamps recalls how his experience with Harford Memorial Hospital and loss of his family led to a new awareness of racism in the 1960s. This also spurred him to step up as a leader in the successful federal civil rights lawsuit known as "Detroit Edison vs. Stamps" (1971-1975). [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…