Sterilization abuse of African American women by the white medical establishment reached its height in the 1950s and 1960s. Women who went into the hospital to deliver children often came out ...

and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s. Hayden came to ...

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The screening of “Sarah’s Place,” a documentary about a pioneering Black woman in Gainesville who ... was way ahead of her time as a female African American entrepreneur,” Steadham said.