Before You Go: From Sumner High School to Homer G. Phillips

We meet retired nurse Glyndorah Hubbard of St. Louis, MO who was born in 1916. At 15 years old, Ms. Hubbard graduated from famed Sumner High School in St. Louis. Upon graduating college, she began her life as a nurse while working at the only hospital where Black residents of the city could get medical care at the time, Homer G. Phillips. As Ms. Hubbard shares fascinating and heartbreaking family stories--including the grandmother she knew who was enslaved and the other who was not--hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh remember stories from their own backgrounds that put it all in perspective.

Oral histories from this area of the United States are also the mission of the Missouri History Museum located in St. Louis, MO.