When:
Thursday, January 10, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Ward Building, Galter Library-2nd Floor/West Reading Room, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Myria Knox
(312) 503-7962
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program, co-sponsoring with
The Galter Library and
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion
presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Kate Masur, PhD
Associate Professor and
Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor of History
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Color Was a Bar to Entrance:
Black Physicians at the White House During the Civil War
This talk emphasizes civil rights struggles during the American Civil War, focusing on the activism of two black physicians in the U.S. Army, Alexander Augusta and Anderson Abbott.