Medicine and the Movement

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.