Walking a Chalk Line

Lovie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Yarger
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Health Officer ◽  
Returns To Work ◽  
Beaufort County ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Pitt County ◽  
Line P ◽  
Gain Access

This chapter describes how midwife-attended home births declined dramatically as poor and minority women gain access to hospital birth with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the advent of Medicaid in 1965. With her clientele dwindling, Lovie returns to work at the Beaufort County Health Department, where she butts heads with a new generation of health officials not as supportive of her nurse-midwifery work as the previous generation had been and who expect her to adhere strictly to the letter of the granny law. Although Lovie employed a dual bag strategy to skirt the law, she maintains that she always strictly followed proper bag technique. She discusses problems she encountered with the health officer of Pitt County, problems that led her to deliver a handful of Pitt County women in her Beaufort County home.

VLADAVINA PRAVA I USLUGE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan Vujisic ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
The Republic

In the first part of the paper are analyzed different views of the rule of law: liberaldemocratic, then positivistic view and, finally, defining of the rule of law as the rule of positive-law order of particular properities. In addition to these the three theoretic orientations, one more classification was pointed out - formal and materaialistic aspect of the rule of law. Besides, the principles and institutions of the rule of law were analyzed: legitimacy of power, division of power, independent judiciary, legitimacy expressed in terms of the ideas of constitution and lawfulness, constitutional guarantees of human and civil rights, existence of free economy and economic activities. The subject of the second part of this paper are services. Nowadays, services are the motor of economic growth and include, especially in developed countries of EU, more then 70% of EDP, employees, new economic subjects, and service activities also make up over 70% of all the activities. The service sector includes different, heterogenic services the number of which is getting higher and higher. The service activities are numerous and performed in various sectors such as trading, communications, financing, government administration, health department, social welfare, media, education, tourism, catering, sport and others. We are all witness to the constant growth of service sector in view of continuous broadening of the range of services and the influence upon the economic development of the state. Law regulations of the services in the Republic of Serbia were analized as well as its harmonization with the law regulations at the level of EU and the need for its further upgrading and improvement.

Women of Ethnic Minorities in Pediatrics

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 706-710
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Minority Men ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Racial Ethnic

OVERVIEW Minority women physicians may be defined as those of nonwhite racial and ethnic identification. There is a paucity of data available on these women. Until the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the impact of affirmative action programs, reliable statistics regarding minorities were scarce. Subsequently, a data base identifying racial/ethnic origin as well as sex of medical students and physicians has been evolving. Many sources are currently unable to provide such information because most applications are without racial identification. Neither the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) nor the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) maintain data regarding racial/ethnic origin of members. In the 1970s there was a rapid increase in admissions of both women and minorities in US medical schools. First-year enrollment in 1980-1981 included 14.1% minority men and women (Table 1). The number of minority women entering medical school increased from 266 (2.2%) in 1971-1972 to 1,066 (6.2%) in 1981-1982 (Table 2). In departments of pediatrics in US medical schools in 1982, minority women represented 17% of all faculty members. Of 201 minority women, there were 127 Asian, 37 black, 24 Puerto Rican, three Mexican-American, nine other Hispanic, and one American Indian. The most significant increase in representation has occurred in the Asian ethnic group. Minority populations have poorer health status and are at higher risk with respect to accessibility, availability, and utilization of health services. The recruitment and training of minority physicians is important in providing culturally sensitive health care acceptable to bilingual and bicultural minorities. Most minority groups have career development problems that may be related to their ethnic and cultural background.

Emma Jones

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry T. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Book Club ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Political Act ◽  
San Carlos ◽  
Gain Access

Economic expansion and ideas about the free market had a profound impact on what magazines and books could print as well as distribute, which meant that queer folk in far-flung places could gain access to information about homosexuality, civil rights activity, and identity-based discourses. They could become part of the national imagined community of gays and lesbians. In Pensacola, “adopted brothers” and lifelong lovers Ray and Henry Hillyer had a desire to keep abreast of the latest news and other homosexual happenings. The started a small book club in their home under the cover of a non-descript name Emma Jones that by 1974 had grown into a weekend-long convention with beach parties and patriotic drag shows at the San Carlos Hotel that drew thousands to the beaches of Pensacola. When queer visibility threatened Pensacola tourism, bars were raided, arrests were made, and Emma’s party was cancelled. Partying does not always lead to political action, but creating a space for gay men and lesbians to feel at ease with themselves is a profoundly political act. By deploying their bodies and their dollars, the Emma Jones Society established an LGBT presence in “The Sunshine State.”

Legislating Civil and Human Rights Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-108
Author(s):  
Claire Whitlinger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Causal Connection ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Generation

This chapter investigates the causal connection between the 2004 commemoration and another racially significant transformation: Mississippi Senate Bill 2718, an education bill mandating civil rights and human rights education in Mississippi schools. Providing historical perspective on the legislation—the first of its kind in the country—the chapter traces its origins to the fortieth anniversary commemoration in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 2004. After providing a brief history of school desegregation in Mississippi and previous efforts to mandate Holocaust education in the state, the chapter demonstrates how the 2004 commemoration and subsequent civil rights trial mobilized a new generation of local memory activists. When joined with institutional resources at the state-level, these developments generated the commemorative capacity for local organizers to institutionalize civil rights memory through curricular change. Thus, in contrast to other multicultural or human rights education mandates, which have typically been outgrowths of large-scale progressive social movements or the diffusion of global norms, Mississippi’s civil and human rights education bill emerged out of local commemorative efforts.

The Right of Return Movement in Syria: Building a Culture of Return, Mobilizing Memories for the Return

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaheed Al-Hardan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Oslo Accords ◽  
Right Of Return ◽  
Future Return ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Generation

The Palestinian Right of Return Movement (RoRM) emerged among diaspora refugee communities following the Oslo accords and the perceived threat to the right of return. This article focuses on the RoRM in Syria in the context of the community's history and unique civil rights there. Based on extensive interviews in the Damascus area, it provides an overview of the heterogeneous movement, which, while requiring state approval, operates in an autonomous civil society sphere. RoRM activists translate visions of the return formulated in the Palestinian national arena into local community practices that mobilize memories of Palestine as resources (through oral history, village commemorations, etc.) with the aim of ensuring a future return by the new generation of refugees.

“Peace at Home Is the Most Essential Thing”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent M. S. Campney
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
World War I ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
World War ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
Black Populations ◽  
New Generation

This chapter chronicles the long “Red Summer” and persistent racial violence throughout the 1920s. With America's entry into World War I, black populations swelled in response to labor shortages, thus precipitating racial conflict over jobs and housing between white residents of northern industrial cities and the black newcomers. These tensions would culminate in the “Red Summer,” a season of race riots, conflagrations, and other types of spectacular violence. Though the wartime surge in violence would subside after 1921, racial prejudice and violence continued on. Despite these setbacks, however, black resistance likewise persisted; and this period marks the ascent of a new generation of civil rights activists, as well as a few other notable milestones such as the Thurman-Watts v. Board of Education of Coffeyville and Brown v. Board of Education decisions and the establishment of the Kansas City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

scholarly journals Succession Planning Activities at a Rural Public Health Department

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Cole ◽  
Clifford Harbour
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Public Health Authority ◽  
Public Health Department ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Health Officer ◽  
Public Health Office ◽  
Rural State

This qualitative case study utilized interviews and evaluation of publicallyavailable documents to investigate the process of succession planning in a moderately-sized public health office located in a metropolitan community in a frontier-rural state. Following analysis of the data, the results were compared to literature findings. Four public health directors, the County Health Officer and the Board of Health chairperson participated in the private, face-to-face interviews. These individuals were asked to participate because they have the ability to direct staff leadership development activities. A formal succession planning program did not exist at this agency; however, on an informal basis, leadership development was evident. Successes in promotion of leadership development included establishment of a cooperative and collegial work atmosphere. Barriers to the process of succession planning included a lack of stable funding, lack of understanding about the role of public health by the public, erosion of public health authority, inability to recruit trained personnel, low pay scales, and aging of the current workforce. The results of this study indicate that although formal succession planning programs may not exist within an agency, leadership development is still possible through proven adult education methods.

Moral Leadership of the World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Azaransky
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Moral Leadership ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Montgomery Bus Boycott ◽  
The People ◽  
Bus Boycott ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Martin Luther King

In the 1950s, Cold War politics made anticolonial alliances between Africans, Asians, and black Americans suspect, as the demands of governing—as opposed to coordinating a freedom movement—redirected energies and attention. Yet India and Ghana, in particular, remained concrete examples for the network at the center of this book. Benjamin Mays returned to India in 1953 to witness the world’s largest democracy composed of people of color. Bayard Rustin went to Ghana in 1959 to coordinate an international antinuclear and antiimperial protest of French nuclear testing in the Sahara desert. Mays and Rustin were both instrumental to the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which inaugurated Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights leader. The decade closed with a new generation of activists and intellectuals taking lessons from the people at the center of this book to spur a mass, nonviolent American freedom movement.

Up to My Neck in Deliveries

Lovie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Yarger
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Home Birth ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Home Births ◽  
The North ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
County Health Department ◽  
Hospital Births ◽  
Beaufort County ◽  
At Home

Lovie’s marriage takes her to the North Carolina town of Washington, where she takes a job with the Beaufort County Health Department and starts attending home births on the side. Lovie describes working under the granny law, given that North Carolina had no law at the time to regulate the practice of nurse-midwifery. At her job, she faces opposition from nursing colleagues prejudiced against midwifery who claim she is taking their profession “back to the dark ages.” Her prejudices against hospital births deepen after she has two babies at home and two in the hospital. This chapter also discusses Lovie’s departure from the health department in 1957 to embark on a solo home birth practice and chronicles the death of her husband, Marshall Shelton.

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