January 31, 2020

Please see this week's announcements from the Johns Hopkins

Medicine, Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

JHM Office of Diversity & Inclusion Achievers Awards Winners

Congratulations to the inaugural winners and finalists of our Achievers Awards program. These recipients are being

recognized for their outstanding contributions to the healthcare field and the surrounding African American

communities. They exemplify excellence and exhibit our core values.

Winners

Steven McDonald, Case Manager, JHU, School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Sharon Sellers, Senior Community Dementia Program Manager, Sibley Memorial Hospital/Sibley Senior Association

Jonathan Grant, PharmD, Clinical Coordinator, Johns Hopkins Home Care Group/Pharmacy Services

Agnes Usoro, M.D., Resident JHU/School of Medicine/Emergency Medicine

Finalists

Brian Waters, Communications Specialist, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Marketing and Communications

Nathan Irvin, M.D., Assistant Professor, JHU School of Medicine/Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Adrian Mosley, Administrator, Office of Community Health, Johns Hopkins Hospital/General Services

To read more about the amazing accomplishments of these recipients, please visit our website. They will be honored

on February 26, 2020 at The Hopkins Diaspora “The New Jim Crow” Panel Discussion to be held in Turner

Auditorium at noon.

Celebrating Black History Month February is National Black History Month and as we celebrate the diversity that strengthens Johns Hopkins Medicine,

fuels our insights and innovations, and brings out the best in America, we particularly recognize the contributions of

the children, grandchildren and other descendants of enslaved men and women who toiled and gave their lives to

make America the remarkable place it is today.

There will be several events held on the East Baltimore and Bayview campuses during the month. Please visit Black

History Month Events Across Johns Hopkins Medicine for details.

We would also like to recognize The Hopkins Diaspora ERG, an employee resource group for African

American/Black employees of Johns Hopkins. For more information about the ERG, please contact one of the co-

chairs: Regina Gail Malloy, Executive Assistant, JHH Office of the President rmalloy4@jhmi.edu or Bishara Bates,

MHA, SFHM, CHFP, Assistant Director, JHCP East Baltimore Medical Center bishara.bates@jhmi.edu

The Hopkins Diaspora will also be hosting the following events this month:

1. When They See Us Movie Marathon – Friday, Feb. 21 at 12 noon in Turner Auditorium. FREE ticket

required. Obtain tickets via: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-they-see-us-movie-marathon-tickets-

82827079023

2. The New Jim Crow Panel Discussion – Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 12 noon in Turner Auditorium. Expert

Panelists will discuss the history of mass incarceration and how to mitigate its effects on the African-American

community. The panel discussion is FREE and open to the public.

3. Expungement Clinic /Voter Registration – Wednesday, Feb. 26 from 2 – 6 p.m. in Turner Concourse.

Attendees can receive FREE legal advice about removing expungable offenses from their record. Also, voter

registration will take place. Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to have your event, etc. promoted by our office, please email the details to us at diversity@jhmi.edu

Contact Us Johns Hopkins Medicine

Office of Diversity & Inclusion

1620 McElderry Street, Reed Hall, Baltimore, MD 21205

Website: www.hopkinsmedicine.org/diversity Email: diversity@jhmi.edu Phone: 844-JHDVRSTY (543-8778)

www.eventbrite.com/e/when-they-see-us-movie-marathon-tickets-82827079023

The Hopkins Diaspora ERG Presents

A Black History Month Friday Film Marathon

Feb. 21, 2020 Turner Auditorium 12 - 5 p.m.

A FREE TICKET IS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION.Please use the link below to obtain your free ticket:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/82827079023

CONCESSIONS WILL BE SOLD A FOR NOMINAL FEE.

For more information, please contact: HopkinsDiaspora@jhmi.edu

JOIN EXPERT PANELISTS FOR A THOUGHT-PROVOKING DISCUSSION ON THE

HISTORY OF MASS INCARCERATION AND HOW TO MITIGATE ITS EFFECTS ON

THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY.

.....

....

j PANELIST

DR. STANLEY ANDRISSE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER

-

"FROM PRISON CELLS

TO PHD"

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: HOPKINSDIASPORA@JHMI.EDU

TURNER AUDITORIUM I 720 RUTLAND AVE. I BALTIMORE, MD 21205

PRESENTS

WEDNESDAYFEB. 26, 2020 @ NOON

M E D ICIN E

TH E HOPKINS DIAS PORA EM PLOYE E R ESOURCE GROUP

IS HOSTING AN

WEDNESDAY

FEB. 26, 2020 I 2PM - 6PM

TURNER CONCOURSE

720 RUTLAND AVE | BALTIMORE, MD 21205

If you have a criminal record and are facing barriers to employment, housing, and other opportunities...

Attend our FREE clinic to find out if your criminal offenses can be erased from your record.

Maryland Legal Aid, Out For Justice andJOTF will provide FREE legal advice to:

• Determine expungement eligibility

• Remove expungable offenses

• Draft and file expungement paperwork

The Johns Hopkins HR Department and The Hopkins Diaspora ERG will provide:

• Job Application Assistance

• Voter Registration

• Light Refreshments

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL: (410) 955-2291 OR EMAIL: HOPKINSDIASPORA@JHMI.EDU

The Hopkins Diaspora ERG Celebrates400 Years of African-American History in Maryland

1619

1634

1642

1661

In August 1619, a ship arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia, carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans, the first on record to be brought to the English colony of Virginia. They were among the 12.5 million Africans forced into the trans-Atlantic slave trade through the Middle Passage.

Mathias de Sousa, the first black in Maryland, arrived aboard the Ark in St. Mary’s City.

The first documented Africans were brought to Maryland in 1642, as 13 slaves arrived at St. Mary’s City.

The Maryland Assembly passed a law forbidding miscegenation (interracial marriage). In 1664, the Maryland Assembly ruled that all enslaved people should be held in slavery for life and that children of enslaved mothers should also be held in slavery for life.

1731

1739

1792

Benjamin Banneker was born in Baltimore County, Maryland. Banneker was a free black almanac author, surveyor of the District of Columbia, naturalist, and farmer.

A conspiracy for the most massive slave revolt in America’s history was planned by Jack Ransom in Prince George’s County to include over 200 slaves with a target date of December 1, 1739. A loyal slave told his master of the plot, and Mr. Ransom, along with five other slaves, were arrested. Mr. Ransom was eventually hanged in March1740.

Mr. Thomas Brown, a black Revolutionary War veteran from Baltimore, made an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the state legislature.

1600

1700

1807

1818

1820

1831

1831

1835

1863

1864

1870

1873

1882

1889

1889

Ira Aldridge, a Shakespearean actor, was born in Harford County. The Shakespearean Memorial Theater in Stratford-on-Avon in England has a chair designated in his memory.

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglas escaped from slavery on September 3, 1838, in Baltimore, Maryland, and later became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.

Harriet Tubman was born Araminta “Minty” Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland. She successfully escaped from slavery on September 17, 1849. Tubman returned to the Eastern Shore of Maryland through the Underground Railroad rescuing over 70 slaves in 13 expeditions.

A network of secret routes and safe houses used by black and white abolitionists to help black people escape from slavery, was officially named “The Underground Railroad.”

Maryland responded to Nat Turner’s rebellion by drafting a new, more comprehensive law, further curtailing slaves’ privileges and usurping the rights of free blacks.

Isaac Myers, a pioneer of the African-American trade union movement and the first the first known African-American postal inspector, was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved blacks on January 1, 1863.

Slavery did not end in Maryland until the adoption of a new State Constitution on November 1, 1864. However, new state law allowed former slaveholders to force African-Americans under age 21 into “apprenticeship” if they had no other means of support.

African American men won the right to vote with the 15th amendment to the Constitution. In the same year, lawmakers in Maryland and many other states enacted property requirements for voters, barring all men without land from voting. Few African-Americans owned farms or homes.

William H. Butler became the first black elected official in the state when he won a seat on the Annapolis City Council in 1873.

Joseph I. Collins was elected City Commissioner in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland.

Mr. William Thomas, the beloved and much-admired doorman, opened the doors of The Johns Hopkins Hospital to receive its first visitors on May 7. He remained at Hopkins for 59 years until his death in 1948.

Mr. Benjamin Frisby was a porter at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and started the annual Turtle Derby and the Frisby Farm. He later became a messenger to the superintendent of JHH.

1890

1892

1894

Henry Scythe Cummings was elected to the Baltimore City Council.

The Afro-American newspaper was founded. In 1896, John H. Murphy purchased the newspaper and ran the paper until his son, Carl Murphy, succeeded him as president in 1922.

Provident Hospital was established in Baltimore by leading black physicians in 1894.

1901

1908

1911

1930

1935

1941

1946

1954

1958

1959

Through various means, including attempted amendments to the state constitution, Maryland tried to take the right to vote away from blacks. Though unsuccessful, attempts were not abandoned until the 1910s.

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before his judicial service, Marshall successfully argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education.

Clarence Maurice Mitchell, Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Mitchell was an American civil rights activist and was the regional director and chief lobbyist for the NAACP for nearly 30 years.

Founded in the 1930s, Carr’s Beach and Sparrow’s Beach each attracted thousands of African-Americans to the shores of the Chesapeake Bay just south of Annapolis. Carr’s Beach was a regular stop for famous entertainers such as Ray Charles, James Brown, and Sarah Vaughan.

A lawsuit required the University of Maryland School of Law, to admit its first black students.

Dr. Vivien Thomas assisted Dr. Alfred Blalock at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and was instrumental in developing the life-saving cardiac surgical procedure for “blue” babies in 1944. He served as supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins for 35 years.

Dr. Ralph Jonathan Young was the first black physician appointed to The Johns Hopkins Hospital medical staff.

Baltimore became the first city in Maryland and the first in the nation to implement school desegregation following Brown v. Board of Education.

Verda Welcome was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates to represent the Fourth District of Baltimore City, becoming the first black woman to be elected to a state senate.

Ms. Gertrude Hodges was the first African-American to graduate from The Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses.

1900

1800

1965

1971

1971

1973

1978

1984

1987

1990

1999

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Robert M. Bell v. The State of Maryland outlawed discrimination in Maryland restaurants and public accommodations.

Parren J. Mitchell became the first African-American from Maryland elected to the U.S. Congress. He served from 1971 – 1987.

Dr. Levi Watkins began his medical residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He later became chief resident of cardiac surgery and the first African-American chief resident at JHU.

Dr. Franklin W. Knight was the first African-American faculty member to gain academic tenure at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Roland T. Smoot became the first African-American faculty member and assistant dean at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Dr. Ben Carson was appointed Director of Pediatric Neurosurgeryat Johns Hopkins, and in 1987, was the lead neurosurgeon of a 70-member surgical team that separated conjoined twins.

Clarence “Du” Burns was appointed as Mayor of Baltimore for half a term. However, Kurt L. Schmoke became Baltimore’s first African-American elected mayor in 1987.

Michael Moore became the first African-American elected county legislator in Calvert County.

Gwendolyn Parrish became the first African-American woman on motorcycle patrol and to rise to the rank of Sergeant in the Baltimore County Police Department.

2002

2007

2007

2007

2018

2019

Michael S. Steele, lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2003 - 2007, was the first African-American elected to a statewide office.

Shelia Dixon became the first African-American woman to serve as president of the Baltimore City Council and Baltimore’s first female Mayor.

Fannie Gaston-Johansson was the first African-American woman to be a tenured full professor at Johns Hopkins University. She was also named the first chair of the School of Nursing Department of Acute and Chronic Care.

Dr. Lisa Cooper was the first African-American woman to become a tenured professor in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

Lt. Col. LaTonya Lewis became the first African-American woman to rise above the rank of lieutenant in the Baltimore City Police Department.

Dr. Sherita Golden becomes the first African-American woman to serve as Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

2000

For more information, please contact: HopkinsDiaspora@jhmi.edu.