It was a time of social upheaval and racial discontent. Those in poorer areas didn’t have good access to medical care certainly less than others elsewhere who were wealthier (and typically whiter). Neither did they have the same career opportunities.
In Pittsburgh in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Freedom House Ambulance Service presented a pioneering answer to both problems, training residents of the city’s underserved areas as paramedics to deliver elite prehospital care back to neglected neighborhoods like their own. And while it lasted less than a decade, it demonstrated that with the right resources and will, pipelines could be built to craft worthy candidates in need of a chance into dedicated caregivers that returned quality help to their communities.
Welcome Remarks for Forgotten Legacy: William McKinley, George Henry White, and the Struggle for Black Equality
Greetings from the National Archives. I’m David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and it s my pleasure to welcome you to today’s virtual book talk with Benjamin Justesen, author of
Forgotten Legacy.
Before we begin, though, I’d like to tell you about two upcoming programs you can view on our YouTube channel.
On Thursday, February 4, at 1 p.m., Alice Baumgartner will tell us about her new book,
South to Freedom. In the years before the Civil War, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north, but by crossing the southern border into Mexico.
By Michael Davis | National Archives News
WASHINGTON, February 2, 2021âIn advance of African American History month, the National Archives and the National Archives Foundation presented a number of programs in January on the continuing struggle for Black equality and civil rights from the Civil War forward. This yearâs theme for African American History month in February is âThe Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity.â
In video messages filmed at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero introduced most of the virtual events.
The first live virtual event on the list, which took place on January 14, was the Young Learners ProgramâMeet the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.