- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Evelyn Schmidt, February 9, 1999
- Creator:
- Schmidt, Evelyn, 1926?-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Kaplan, Ann
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1999-02-09
- Subject:
- Women physicians--North Carolina
Durham (N.C.)--Social conditions
Women pediatricians--North Carolina--Durham
Women physicians--North Carolina--Durham
Lincoln Community Health Center (Durham, N.C.)
Medical centers--North Carolina--Durham
Poor--Medical care--North Carolina--Durham
Poor--Services for--North Carolina--Durham
African Americans--Medical care--North Carolina--Durham
Latin Americans--Medical care--North Carolina--Durham
Equality--Health aspects--North Carolina--Durham - People:
- Schmidt, Evelyn D., 1926?-
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Durham County, Durham, 35.99403, -78.89862
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Dr. Evelyn Schmidt left the South after earning her undergraduate and medical degrees at Duke University, convinced that her liberal political views alienated her from a racially and economically polarized region. When she returned in the early 1970s to head the Durham Community Medical Center, she found a city transformed by desegregation, but with a new set of challenges posed by enduring poverty and an influx of new immigration. In this interview, Schmidt shares her beliefs about the importance of providing access to health care, the need for preventive medicine, her fears about a rising uninsured population, and the challenges of bilingualism. As she discusses these issues she describes not only her philosophy but also the needs of a changing community and the connections between race, class, nationality, and health.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0137/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on March 6, 2008).
Interview participants: Evelyn Schmidt, interviewee; Ann Kaplan, interviewer.
Duration: 00:59:34.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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