Old entrance to Harford Memorial Hospital (Havre de Grace, Maryland)
This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital
This image depicts the old main entrance of Harford Memorial Hospital. Black patients and staff could not use this entrance. The hospital forced them to use a side entrance around the corner.
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…