Willie Stamps: Harford Memorial's Response to the Stamps Tragedy
This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital
In this excerpt from a 2019 oral history interview, Willie Stamps discussed the Harford Memorial response to his agreement to not file a lawsuit after a visit from the hospital's chairman not long after Patricia's and Carlos' deaths in the early 1960s. In 2018, the hospital finally held a ceremony and installed pictures with stories below them in the Harford Memorial Hospital lobby, Havre de Grace, Maryland. [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…