- VC265-S253
- Series
- 1985-1990
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
16 color 35mm slides and 2 black and white 8x10 inch photographs depicting John Morris - Neurology.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
16 color 35mm slides and 2 black and white 8x10 inch photographs depicting John Morris - Neurology.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
2 black and white 8x10 inch contact sheets, 7 black and white 35mm negative film strips, 11 color 35mm slides, 1 black and white 5x7 inch portrait, and 3 black and white 8x10 inch portraits of Arnold Strauss.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
2 black and white 5x7 inch photographs, 2 black and white 8x10 inch photographs, 4 color 35mm slides, and 1 black and white 4x5 inch negative depicting William Catalona.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
9 black and white 8x10 inch contact sheets, 51 black and white 35mm negative film strips, 1 black and white 4x5 inch negative, 3 color 4x6 inch photographs, and 19 black and white 8x10 inch photographs depicting scenes from the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Occupational Therapy.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
1 black and white 8x10 inch contact sheet and 5 black and white 8x10 inch portraits of Gary D. Paige - Otolaryngology, Anatomy and Neurobiology.
Quarterly Collection Reports, 1986-1993
Part of Bernard Becker Medical Library
James M. Whittico Oral History
Part of Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project Records
An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 90 minutes.
Whittico, James M., Jr.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
17 color 35mm slides, 1 black and white 8x10 inch contact sheet, 6 black and white 35mm negative film strips, 1 black and white 5x7 inch portrait, and 4 black and white 8x10 inch portraits of Emil Unanue.
Part of Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project Records
An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 64 minutes.
Paul Saunders discusses the suit he and others filed against Barnes Hospital in 1978 for civil rights violations, as well as the state of health care policy and health care for Black people in St. Louis.
Saunders discusses the policy for “geographic separation of patients” at Barnes Hospital’s Maternity Hospital, initiated by hospital director Robert Frank in 1978, and the suit Saunders and others filed with the Missouri Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
He addresses hospital policies and procedures which create informal segregation, and the effects of white flight on medical care in St. Louis, particularly for indigent patients. He discusses the need for national health insurance, and barriers created by the current health care system for Black patients.
Saunders, Paul N.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
4 black and white 35mm negative film strips, 2 black and white 5x7 inch portraits, and 3 black and white 8x10 inch portraits of Michael J. Welch, PhD - Professor of Radiation Chemistry.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
1 black and white 5x7 inch portrait and 4 black and white 8x10 inch portraits of Theodore J. Cicero - Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology in Psychiatry.
William M. Landau Oral History
Part of Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project Records
An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 67 minutes.
As background to the desegregation of hospitals and Washington University School of Medicine, Landau discusses his experiences with segregation in St. Louis as a child, and as medical student, house officer, and resident at Barnes Hospital and the school of medicine. He mentions figures who played a role in desegregation, including David Goldring, Alexis Hartmann, Sr., and Park White, and discusses the obstruction to integration at Barnes from Frank Bradley, the director of the hospital, and the board of trustees. Landau also discusses the desegregation of the school of medicine.
Landau, William M.
Julian C. Mosley, Jr. Oral History
Part of Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project Records
An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 57 minutes.
Julian Mosley, the second Black student to graduate from Washington University School of Medicine, discusses his experiences as a student in the 1960s and recruitment strategies and programs for students from minority groups.
He begins by explaining why he decided to come to Washington University. He discusses the other Black students in his class and his efforts to recruit more Black students to the medical school. Mosley also discusses the work of Robert Lee as Assistant Dean for Minority Student Affairs and his success at recruiting students. He addresses specific efforts on the part of Lee, other students, and the university that supported minority students, including tutoring and individualized programs.
Mosley next discusses the Wessler Committee and later, their recommendations. He addresses the lack of Black professors at Washington University and at the medical school, and the lack of Black students in the residency programs. He also discusses the effects of the Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke on minority student recruitment.
He discusses his experience with integration in high school in East St. Louis, in the Air Force Academy, and at Washington University, and his experiences with professional societies and student medical associations and programs.
Lastly, Mosley explains what he believes needs to be done to recruit more Black graduate students and faculty, and gives his thoughts for the future.
Mosley, Julian C., Jr.
William C. Banton, II Oral History
Part of Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project Records
An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 67 minutes.
Banton, William C., II
Howard Phillip Venable Oral History
Part of Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project Records
An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 1 hour and 16 minutes.
Please note that some of Venable’s statements contain ambiguities that the interviewers were unable to verify.
Howard Phillip Venable discusses his experience at Homer G. Phillips Hospital, the desegregation of hospitals in St. Louis, his work with students, and his experience with housing discrimination.
Venable describes how he came to work at Homer G. Phillips Hospital and the segregation of medical care and medical education in St. Louis in the 1930s and 1940s. He explains the connections between Homer Phillips, Washington University, and St. Louis University, and discusses the doctors from Washington University and Barnes Hospital who came to Homer Phillips. Venable also relates his work identifying ophthalmological differences between Black and white patients.
He addresses his role in desegregating an ophthalmology society in St. Louis, the housing discrimination he faced in Creve Coeur and his case against the city, and the part he played in the desegregation of St. Louis hospitals. He relates his experience as a Black doctor before Barnes integrated, and the white patients he saw at his private practice. He also discusses the closure of Homer Phillips and the differences between Homer Phillips and Max Sarkloff Hospital (City Hospital No. 1).
Venable discusses the establishment of the Katie and Howard Phillip Venable Student Research Fund in Ophthalmology and his experience as an associate examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology. He also explains what he thinks should be done to get more Black students into medical school.
Venable, Howard Phillip
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
7 black and white 35mm negative film strips, 1 black and white 8x10 inch contact sheet, 1 black and white 3x5 inch portrait, and 3 black and white 8x10 inch photographs depicting Saulo Klahr - Renal Division Head.
Part of Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project Records
An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 11 minutes.
Michael Karl discusses the ways in which hospitals were segregated in St. Louis when he first came to the city in the 1930s, and how the desegregation of Barnes Hospital came about.
Karl begins by addressing the status of segregated medical facilities in St. Louis in the early 1930s and 1940s and then discusses the desegregation of Barnes Hospital and the elimination of the segregated wards for Black patients, Wards 0300 and 0400. He remarks on the role the hospital boards played in preventing the hospital from desegregating, and the similarities and differences between the Black and white wards.
Karl also discusses the high level of medical care for Black patients at Barnes Hospital and some Black physicians who worked at Barnes.
He says he believes Barnes was integrated in 1962, however the exact date when the hospital was fully integrated is not known.
Karl, Michael M.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
6 color 35mm slides, 5 color 35mm negative film strips, 1 contact sheet, 1 black and white 5x7 inch portrait, and 3 black and white 8x10 inch portraits of Phillip Cryer - Director, Cancer Research Center.
Part of Medical Public Affairs Name and Subject Photographs, Negatives, and Slides
2 black and white 8x10 inch photographs featuring C. Everett Koop - former Surgeon General.
Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project notes
Part of Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project Records
This series contains project notes and drafts written by Edwin McCleskey and the original interview recordings on audio cassette tapes. The contents include research notes and project planning documents; drafts of a proposal for minority scholarships; notes from a pre-interview with M. Kenton King, the former Dean of Washington University School of Medicine; and a summary of an un-taped interview with James L. Sweatt, III, the first Black graduate of Washington University School of Medicine.