S2 E32: Black Paramedics Find an Ally in a Young White Female Doctor – Freedom House, Part II

S2 E32: Black Paramedics Find an Ally in a Young White Female Doctor – Freedom House, Part II

Constant Wonder - Season 2, Episode 32

  • Sep 28, 2022 12:00 pm
  • 39:36 mins

Part 2 of our Freedom House story involves the racial politics of saving lives in the late '60s and early '70s, a norm-shattering young White female doctor, and the graceful but determined response of one skilled Black paramedic, who provided unheralded leadership to the people he worked under. Kevin Hazzard, author of "American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics" John Moon, former paramedic at Freedom House and former Assistant Chief, City of Pittsburgh EMS Photo Credit: Harvard University, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America