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In 1952, Conservatory Dean Virginia Carty received a letter from Walter E. Hager, President of Wilson Teachers College in Washington, D.C., as a follow up to a 1950 Regional Conference on Discrimination in College Administration. Hager asked for a…

Launched in 1942 by the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s largest Black newspapers, the Double V campaign encouraged Blacks to fight for freedom abroad and at home.

In 2013, Dr. Wei-Ping Andrew Lee (front center) performed the first-ever bilateral arm transplant at Hopkins. The patient was Brendan Marrocco (on Lee’s left), a veteran of the Iraq War

Salvarsan, also known as 606, was a synthetic drug developed by the scientist Paul Ehrlich in 1909 to treat syphilis. It was a path-breaking development that revolutionized the American medical profession’s ability to treat the disease. When World…