Medicine and the Movement

Overview

Building on the work of historians such as Thomas J. Ward and Darlene Clark Hine, Medicine and the Movement presents Dr. Escous B. Goode’s remarkable 56-year career in medicine (1929-1985) as an illustration of how the U.S. civil rights movement played out in the field of health care. This is a major dimension in the history of the movement that all too often gets overlooked in textbooks, public monuments and popular culture.