Leona D. Sanders Midwife Collection
name: label: Names
content: Universal Negro Improvement Association
topic: label: Topic
content: African Americans in medicine -- 1940-1950
label: Topic
content: Babies
label: Topic
content: Infants
label: Topic
content: Midwifery
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Items donated by Sarah J. Davidson to the Archives Center in 2023 and 2024.
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents the work of African-American midwife Leona Sanders of Kilmichael, Mississippi, 1942-1953.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: .15 Cubic feet (1 folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1953
container: label: Container
content: Box 1 (Shared Box)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1524
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Record books
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection consists of four items and is unarranged.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Patti Williams, archivist, 2024.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Record books
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: This collection consists of the following items belonging to Leona Sanders, relating to her midwifery career: four by seven-inch Birth Record Note Book recording births from 1942-1948;  Manual for Midwives, revised in 1952; and a Mississippi State Board of Health County Midwife meeting notification, 1953.  This collection also contains a one-page poem, entitled "Emblem of the UNIA," (Universal Negro Improvement Association), undated.