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Darlene Clark Hine, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, argued in a lecture yesterday afternoon that during the Jim Crow era black professionals created institutions and survival mechanisms that not only saved the black community, but also empowered...
...Hine introduced the purpose of her speech as a “study of power, empowerment and the generation of social movement” in the African American struggle for equal opportunity. In presenting her study of black survival, she focused on the life and career of Maude Callen, a nurse and midwife who served the community of Pineville, S.C., from the 1920s to the 1950s...
...Hine said Callen’s battles with an inadequate healthcare system, segregation in impoverished schools and a predominantly white hierarchy of power exemplified the extraordinary circumstances black professionals faced before the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education...
Callen, according to Hine, revolutionized healthcare and education by teaching other women about prenatal care, birth control, diseases and necessary inoculations for children...
...Hine said that Callen, like many other black professionals, “saved lives and empowered women...