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Margaret Charles Smith. Margaret Charles Smith (September 12, 1906–November 12, 2004) was an African-American midwife, who became known for her extraordinary skill over a long career, spanning over thirty years. [1] Despite working primarily in rural areas with women who were often in poor health, she lost very few of the more than 3000 ...
Midwives in the United States assist childbearing women during pregnancy, labor and birth, and the postpartum period. Some midwives also provide primary care for women including well-woman exams, health promotion, and disease prevention, family planning options, and care for common gynecological concerns. Before the turn of the 20th century ...
In the 1910s and 1920s, S. Josephine Baker, director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, advocated to keep midwives because many immigrants and African-Americans whom midwives have traditionally served could not afford the care of physicians. As such, the solution of the “midwife problem” was to train, license, and regulate them. [11]
July 10, 1979. (1979-07-10) (aged 68) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Alma mater. Tuskegee School of Nurse-Midwifery for Colored Nurses. Mamie Odessa Hale (November 19, 1910 – July 10, 1979) was a leader in public health and a midwife consultant who worked in Arkansas for the Department of Health from 1945 to 1950. [1]
Profession. lay midwife. Mary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 8, 1966) was an American lay midwife who ran a successful business providing a range of birth services and who starred in a critically acclaimed documentary film used to train midwives and doctors. Her competence projected an image of black midwives as the face of an ...
Mamie Odessa Hale was nurse and teacher of midwives in Arkansas. [91] Beatrix McCleary Hamburg in 1948 became the first African American woman to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine. [92] Jean L. Harris in 1955 is the first African American woman to earn a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia.
Halifax County, Virginia, United States. Died. (1926-08-22) August 22, 1926. Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina, United States. Occupation. Midwife. Henrietta Phelps Jeffries (January 5, 1857 – August 22, 1926) was an African American midwife and a founding member of the Macedonia A.M.E. Church located in Milton, North Carolina. [1]
Onnie Lee Logan (née Rodgers) (3 May 1910 – 12 July 1995) was an Alabama midwife, who relied on traditional knowledge and who trained lay midwives and served the needs of birthing women in an era when black women were not served equally in the era when hospitals emerged. [1]