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The Healers of Harlem: The Black Women Who Changed Medicine Forever

August 25

Illustrated cover of The Healers of Harlem The Black Women Who Changed Medicine Forever. The background is a shadowy cityscape with a large blocky building in the center and a pink sky with rays of lighter pink. In the front are four women with varying shades of brown skin. All have either short hair or hair that is pulled back. All are smiling. On the left one is holding a stethoscope and wearing a white coat over a yellow sweater. The others are wearing long sleeved blouses or a cardigan over a blouse. The Healers of Harlem: The Black Women Who Changed Medicine Forever by Nina Chhita
Dutton Books for Young Readers

The story of the Harlem Hospital is entwined with the history of desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement in America. In this unique interdisciplinary history, Chhita chronicles the Harlem Hospital from its beginnings as a small hospital in the late-19th century to the day it saved Dr. MArtin Luther King Jr.’s life to its present form as a world class medical facility. She focuses on four Black women who were instrumental in the long struggle to demolish racist barriers in the hospital and overcome anti-Black bias against its work after integration.

Chhita spent years doing interviews and painstaking archival research, and the book features many previously unpublished primary sources which she skillfully weaves into a story of personal and collective struggle and triumph.

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