Willie Stamps and the historic entrance to Harford Memorial Hospital

ID: 37 ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: September, 2019

This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital

Willie Stamps and the historic entrance to Harford Memorial Hospital — Harford Civil Rights Project

Willie Stamps looking at a photograph in 2019 in the lobby Harford Memorial Hospital of the hospital's historic entrance, but not where he and his family could enter in 1960

This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital

The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital

By James Karmel

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…