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black history people list – Medical Apartheid:

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction)
PEN/Oakland Award Winner
BCALA Nonfiction Award Winner
Gustavus Meyers Award Winner

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and the view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions.
The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused black Americans to view researchers—and indeed the whole medical establishment—with such deep distrust. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read Medical Apartheid, a masterful book that will stir up both controversy and long-needed debate.

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( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although predated by the short lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company that put out smaller films, he is regarded as the first African-American feature filmmaker, and the most prominent producer of race films.

Micheaux (sometimes written as "Michaux") was born near Metropolis, Illinois and grew up in Great Bend, Kansas, one of eleven children of parents who had been born into slavery. As a young boy, he shined shoes and worked as a porter on the railway.

As a young man, he successfully homesteaded a 500-acre farm in Gregory County, South Dakota, where he also began writing stories. Micheaux overcame many of the racist restrictions on African-American publishers and authors by forming his own publishing company and selling his books door-to-door.

The advent of the motion picture industry intrigued him as a vehicle for storytelling. He formed his own movie production company and, in 1919, became the first African American to make a film. He wrote, directed and produced the silent motion picture, The Homesteader, based on his novel by the same name and starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer. He also used autobiographical elements in The Exile, his first feature film with sound, in which the central character leaves Chicago to buy and operate a ranch in South Dakota. In 1924, his film, Body and Soul, introduced the movie-going public to Paul Robeson.

Given the times, his accomplishments in publishing and film are extraordinary, including being the first African American to produce a film to be shown in "white" movie theaters. In his motion pictures, he moved away from the "Negro stereotypes" being portrayed in film at the time, choosing to show a wide range of characters. In Within Our Gates, Micheaux responded to the racism depicted in the D.W. Griffith film, The Birth of a Nation (1915).

The Producers Guild of America called him, "The most prolific black – if not most prolific independent – filmmaker in American cinema." During his career, Oscar Micheaux wrote, produced and directed 44 feature-length films between 1919 and 1948. He wrote seven novels, one of which was a national bestseller.

Micheaux died in Charlotte, North Carolina, during a business trip. His body was returned to Great Bend, Kansas, where he was interred in the Great Bend Cemetery, alongside members of his family.

* 1987, Oscar Micheaux was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6721 Hollywood Blvd.
* In 1989 the Directors Guild of America honored Micheaux [2] with a Golden Jubilee Special Award.

The Producers Guild created an annual award in his name.

* Also in 1989, the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame gave him a posthumous award.
* Gregory, South Dakota holds an annual Oscar Micheaux Film Festival.
* A documentary was made about Micheaux called Midnight Ramble (2004). Its title refers to the early 20th-century practice of some white cinemas’ screening films only at matinees and midnight for African-American audiences.
* In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante, father of African-American filmmaker M.K. Asante, Jr. listed Oscar Micheaux on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
* On June 22, 2010, in New York, the US Postal Service™ issued a 44-cent, Oscar Micheaux commemorative stamp.

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Lillian Evans Tibbs – 1933

Lillian Evans Tibbs (1890-1967), professionally known as Madame Lillian Evanti, was a lyric soprano who received international acclaim. She was the first black woman to sing opera with an organized company in Europe.

A native Washingtonian, Annie Wilson Lillian Evans was the daughter of teachers Anne Brooks and Dr. Bruce Evans. She sang in her first public concert, a charity event, at age four. Evanti attended Armstrong Manual Training School and Miner Teachers College, and graduated from Howard University School of Music in 1917. She met her future husband Roy Tibbs at Howard. While embarking on her musical career, Evanti taught kindergarten in the DC Public Schools. In 1924 she left for Paris for further training and for better professional opportunities at a time when American opera and classical music companies refused to admit African Americans. She adopted the stage name Madame Lillian Evanti, combining Evans and Tibbs into an Italian-style name.

Evanti made her professional debut in Nice in 1925, beginning a period of touring Europe interspersed with visits to her family in Washington, including a concert at the Lincoln Theatre. In 1934 she performed at the White House for President Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Evanti was also a composer, who wrote the music for “Hail to Washington,” with lyrics by poet Georgia Douglass Johnson. After returning to Washington, Evanti performed with the National Negro Opera Company, portraying Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata. The 1943 production was performed on the floating Watergate Theater barge on the Potomac River.

The Evans and Tibbs families have owned and/or lived in this house since 1904. After Evanti’s death, her grandson, art collector Thurlow Tibbs, Jr., lived here. In the 1970s he founded and operated an art gallery, the Evans-Tibbs Collection. Tibbs died in 1997 and bequeathed the collection to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Evans-Tibbs house was listed on the DC Inventory of Historic Places in 1985 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

black history people list

History books are replete with heroic stories of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, but what of Allen, Russwurm, and Hawley? America’s Black Founders celebrates the lesser known but significant lives and contributions of our nation’s early African American leaders. Many know that the Revolutionary War’s first martyr, Crispus Attucks, a dockworker of African descent, was killed at the Boston Massacre. But far fewer know that the final conflict of the war, the Battle of Yorktown, was hastened to a conclusion by James Armistead Lafayette, a slave and spy who reported the battle plans of General Cornwallis to George Washington.

Author Nancy Sanders weaves the histories of dozens of men and women?soldiers, sailors, ministers, poets, merchants, doctors, and other community leaders?who have earned proper recognition among the founders of the United States of America. To get a better sense of what these individuals accomplished and the times in which they lived, readers will celebrate Constitution Day, cook colonial foods, publish a newspaper, petition their government, and more. This valuable resource also includes a time line of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and Web resources for further study.