Minority Health and Health Equity Archive
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Welcome to the Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA), an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.
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Item The National Negro Health Week Movement(1937) Brown, Roscoe C.The birth of the National Negro Health Week was the timely fruition of Booker T. Washington’s practicable philosophy of “head, heart, hand, - and health” education for effective service and wholesome living. Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal Emeritus of Tuskegee Institute, who as successor to Dr. Washington in 1915, guided the National Negro Health Week movement toward its destined objectives, in his article, “Organized Negro Effort for Racial Progress,” briefly defined the origin of the Health Week: Another movement of large public significance which has met with gratifying success and which also originated within the race itself is what is known as National Negro Health Week. This movement originated in Virginia in 1913, but was shortly after nationalized by the late Dr. Booker T. Washington…Item Spreading the Gospel of Health: Tuskegee Institute and National Negro Health Week(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995) Smith, SusanIn the early twentieth century the health reform efforts of black club women became part of a national black health movement. In 1915 Booker T. Wash- ington, the most powerful black leader of his time, launched a health educa- tion campaign known as National Negro Health Week from Tuskegee In- stitute in Alabama. Washington, as founder and head of the school, had long emphasized sanitation and hygiene in his educational work. However, that year he set in motion a health campaign that would grow into a nation- wide black health movement over the next thirty-five years. For black lead- ers and community organizers, National Negro Health Week campaigns provided a way to advance the race through the promotion of black health education and cooperation across racial lines.Item National Negro Health Week The Thirty-Third Annual Observance March 30 - April 6, 1947(1947) Kenney, John A.This now national popular movement was initiated by the late Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute some thirty-odd years ago. In this connection we are reminded of the topic "Despise Not the Day of Small Beginnings." At first it was annual clean-up week under the direction of Dr. Washington. The Tuskegee Institute School and the surrounding community were called upon at the beginning of spring to clean up their premises and in every way possible within their resources to improve their homes and surroundings. Meetings were held, health talks were given, and sermons on health were preached not only on the school's premises but these were extended into surrounding communities.Item Guide to the Records of National Negro Health WeekChandler, Dana R.The records consist of documents generated or received by the Planning Committee, at Tuskegee (1915-30; from 1930-32 it was located at Howard University Medical School; further records from 1933-36 were located at Tuskegee) for the National Negro Health Week. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper articles, pamphlets, posters, and other general documents. The records are potentially valuable to those interested in researching health trends among African Americans during the late 1920s and 30s. The documents may also be used to determine the extent to which individuals and communities of African Americans worked toward developing viable plans for better health.Item 100 Years Later, a Painful Episode Is Observed at Last(The New York Times, 2006) Dewan, ShailaTwo years ago, Saudia Muwwakkil, the director of communications for the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, invited community leaders to discuss how to mark the 100th anniversary of a 1906 race riot in which mobs of whites descended on the city's black residents. The racial strife shut down Atlanta for four days and ended with the bodies of black men hanging from trees and streetlights. But of those Ms. Muwwakkil called, almost none had heard of it.Item Historical and Current Policy Efforts to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in the US. Future Opportunities for Public Health Education Research(2006) Thomas, Stephen B.; Benjamin, Georges C.; Almario, Donna; Lathan, Monica J.In the summer of 2005, the Society for Public Health Education convened a meeting, Health Disparities and Social Inequities, with the task of setting the minority health disparities research agenda for public health educators. The article provides a history of minority health efforts beginning with the Negro Health Improvement Week in 1915 and an overview of National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) current 5-year strategic research plan to eliminate health disparities. The plan’s goals represent a significant investment in minority health research and the emergence of NIH as the leading federal agency funding health disparity research. Understanding the history of minority health efforts and current health disparity research offers a perspective that will help guide public health educators in reaching the Healthy People 2010 goal of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities.