The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Black women physicians project. Interviews

Repository: Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute. Schlesinger Library

Collection Description (Extant): The Black Women Physicians Project, sponsored by the Medical College of Pennsylvania with a grant from the Women's Institute of Washington, D.C., is an effort 'to collect information and material by and about black women physicians around the United States.'

Summary: Collection consists of transcripts of interviews with Helen Octavia Dickens and Helen Isabella Moorehead-Laurencin, and a videotape of the Dickens interview.

Collection URL: http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|002285419

Date(s): 1988-1989

Digital Status: No

Extent: .25 linear feet

Language: English

Interviewees: Helen Octavia Dickens, Helen Isabella Moorehead-Laurencin

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

African American college students
African American doctors
African American women--Employment
African Americans in medicine
African Americans--Education

Genres:

Interviews
Transcripts
Videorecordings