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    Conversations in African American History with Freetown Village

    Thursday, February 15, 2024

    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM See all dates and Times

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    02/15/2024 06:00 PM 02/15/2024 07:30 PM America/Anguilla Conversations in African American History with Freetown Village For February, our guest speaker Leon Bates (Local historian, veteran, and educator) will introduce us to the story of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Ward, M.D. A first-generation freedman, born in a slave cabin in Wilson, North Carolina; Ward went on to become a physician, surgeon, entrepreneur, army officer, first African American to lead a U.S. Army field hospital, first African American to lead a U.S. veteran’s hospital, and the first African American to lead a major hospital in the United States. He did all this at the height of the Jim Crow era, between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education (1896-1954), and yet, almost no one knows his name. Sponsored by Indiana Landmarks... Details & Tickets: https://www.upcomingevents.com/indianapolis/events/indiana-landmarks/conversations-in-african-american-history-with-freetown-village-165696?ref=uceaddevent Indiana Landmarks, 1201 Central Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, 46202

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    Downtown (Indianapolis)
    Fountain Square (Indianapolis)
    Mapleton-Fall Creek (Indianapolis)
    Near Northside (Indianapolis)

    For February, our guest speaker Leon Bates (Local historian, veteran, and educator) will introduce us to the story of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Ward, M.D. A first-generation freedman, born in a slave cabin in Wilson, North Carolina; Ward went on to become a physician, surgeon, entrepreneur, army officer, first African American to lead a U.S. Army field hospital, first African American to lead a U.S. veteran’s hospital, and the first African American to lead a major hospital in the United States. He did all this at the height of the Jim Crow era, between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education (1896-1954), and yet, almost no one knows his name. Sponsored by Indiana Landmarks’ Black Heritage Preservation Program, Indiana Humanities, IUPUI Africana Studies Program, and ASALH Joseph Taylor Branch (Association of the Study of African American Life and History).

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    Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2192405-2

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