Saint Teresa Catholic Church in Port Deposit, Maryland
This file appears in: The Stamps Family and the Desegregation of Harford Memorial Hospital
This image depicts Willie Stamps standing outside of Saint Teresa Catholic Church in Port Deposit, Maryland. Willie Stamps married Patricia Taylor at this church in 1959. Just over a year later, Patricia died following the delivery of her son Carlos at Harford Memorial Hospital.
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…