Jarvis, Elissa
African-American midwives meeting
African-American midwives are lined up in front of a street. Bessie Ward Harris is on the front row, fifth from the right. Date from negative sleeve.
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African American midwives
North Carolina
Greenville
United States
North Carolina
Pitt County (N.C.)
Greenville (N.C.)
Harris, Bessie Ward
Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.)
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African-American midwives meeting
African-American midwives are lined up in front of a street. Bessie Ward Harris is on the front row, fifth from the right. Date from negative sleeve.
African American midwives--North Carolina--Greenville
Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.)
1951
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2013
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United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.)
Harris, Bessie Ward
Bessie Harris was my grandmother. She delivered my son, Victor Lamonte Best, August 17, 1970. She was not only a midwife, but she raised many children and fed many families from her garden,smokehouse, and deep freezer. She was an herbal person as well.
Mrs. Bessie Harris delivered me
on August 9, 1943
Mrs.Bessie Harris helped my Dad put in tobacco when I was a boy, we called her Aunt Bessie,even my Dad. She was a midwife at that time also.
In the south, midwives were trained by the health department to help mothers give birth at home who were unable to afford hospital birth. There is a movie about a southern midwife from this time called "All My Babies".
Mrs. Bessie Ward Harris is my great grandmother.
Mrs. Bessie Ward Harris is the lady 5th from right (front row)
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