Episode Description
While this year's Missouri Conference on History may be over, the Our Missouri Podcast invites listeners to "meet us" in St. Louis for a multi-part series focusing on several projects and institutions that document the city's history and cultural identity. This episode features Priscilla Dowden-White discussing her book, Groping toward Democracy: African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949, as well as her current research project on St. Louisan Margaret Bush Wilson.
Episode & Banner Image: St. Louis mayor Bernard Dickmann at the dedication of the new medical library at Homer G. Phillips Hospital, 1941 [Bernard Dickmann Photograph Collection (S0555), SHSMO]