This February, the Countway Library is celebrating Black History Month with a series of events, lectures, and exhibits. A full calendar of events is available.

As part of Longwood Black History Month, and with the support of the Archivist for Diversity and Inclusion, Joan Ilacqua, and Master of Bioethics student Keona J. Wynne, organized a series of Black History Month profiles highlighting the achievements of black leaders and innovators in medicine and the medicine sciences.

Each profile was written by students from Harvard Medical School’s masters programs, and will be on display at the Countway Library and across campus. Profiles include:

• Microbiologist and cancer immunologist Harold Amos, M.D., Ph.D. (whose collection is available at the Center for the History of Medicine)
• Microbiologst Carolyn B. Brooks, Ph.D.
• Geneticist Georgia M. Dunston, Ph.D.
• James Durham, the first African American physician in the United States
• Chemist Percy Lavon Julian, Ph.D.
• Surgeon and transplant pioneer Samuel Lee Kountz Jr., M.D.
• “Dean” of the Harvard Renaissance Alain LeRoy Locke, Ph.D.
• Bioethicist and Philosopher Keisha Ray, Ph.D.
• Theologian Marcia Y. Riggs, MDIV, Ph.D.
• Bioethicist and Philosopher Patrick Smith, Ph.D.
• Philosopher and Bioethicist Yolonda Y. Wilson, Ph.D.
• Oncologist Jane Cooke Wright, M.D.

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The entire set is available for download as a .pdf file.

Our thanks to Keona Wynne, Marie-Angele Messou, Kela Roberts, Jonnell Small, and Allura Landsberg for participating!