Please Join us on 8/8/2015 for a Free Children’s Day at the Museum from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Meet Heather Butts, author of African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era, a wonderful book that talks about The
service of America's African Americans in defense of our Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those soldiers.
In the nation's capital, these brave healthcare workers joined together to begin to create a medical infrastructure for African Americans by African Americans. Famed surgeon
Alexander T. Augusta fought discrimination to become a preeminent surgeon, visiting with President Lincoln, testifying before congress and aiding in the war effort. Washington's Freedman's Hospital was formed to serve the District's growing free black population and would later become the Howard University Medical Center.
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