Everything You Must Know Before Race and Racism Dialogue

The history of American racism is incredibly complex and deeply rooted in our society. It is also intricately connected to numerous other issues including access to healthcare, education, and employment. Many people believe that racism ended after the Civil Rights movement, but the fight still continues. More people are seeking to understand how racism persists today so that they can work to combat it. We hoped that by compiling the following information we would be able to give the proper tools to understand the United States? role in overcoming racism not only in this nation but abroad. We covered issues including race, ethnicity, immigration, and religion to enrich the reader?s understanding of this country?s role in racism so that they can become agents for social change.

Walter Palmer was born in Atlantic City, NJ, in 1934 and moved to the Black Bottom neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA at 5 years old; both cities were fully segregated. His father died when he was 12, and he was then responsible for his younger siblings and making money for his family. He was shot, stabbed, and arrested by the age of 12. Throughout his childhood, though he had a deep interest in Black history and liberation. He shared what he learned with everyone who would listen, and he would grow up to be a college professor, teaching courses in anti-racism. He grew up to Graduate from Penn's program for Respiratory therapy and was a director Cardio-Pulmonary Care at CHOP for ten years. He was the first and youngest Black hospital director. He studied business administration and media at Temple University, secondary education at Cheyney State University, and law Howard University.