Online Event: Streaming on the Museum of the Grand Prairie Facebook and YouTube pages, 7 p.m.

Help us continue our special speaker series with this engaging virtual program featuring Dr. David McBride, a research specialist, public historian, and professor emeritus of African American studies and history at Penn State University. David's presentation will trace the origins and accomplishments of struggles by civic and health activists to establish equal health opportunities throughout American communities. From the U.S. constitutional protections for equal access to health and environmental resources, to initiatives by public and private health institutions to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic, the health and equality ideals have shaped U.S. medicine and public health for nearly two centuries. Be sure to visit the Museum of the Grand Prairie’s special exhibit “A History of Healing: Infectious Diseases and Community Responses to Defeat Them” soon to learn more about the impact of hard-hitting diseases in our communities’ history and the effect they had on local healthcare systems.

This program is supported in part by Illinois Humanities.

FREE. For more info: (217) 586-2612 or pcain@ccfpd.org. 

Photo Credit: National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health