Brown Christian A, Bond Gregory, White Carla, Urick Benjamin Y
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, USA.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2024 Mar;88(3):100648. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpe.2024.100648. Epub 2024 Jan 12.
The process of desegregation at Southern schools of pharmacy was long and arduous. Despite persistent protests, struggles, and lawsuits, many schools of pharmacy did not graduate their first Black students until the 1970s. The School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill unintentionally desegregated in 1962 when its first Black student, William Wicker, was inadvertently admitted. His personal story and those of his fellow pioneers in desegregation, Mona (Boston) Reddick and James Barnes, provide valuable context to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts. The historical proximity of desegregation affords the pharmacy profession only one or two generations of Black pharmacists trained during an era when Southern pharmacy education was broadly available. These stories personify the legacy of segregation, confront the ongoing impact of structural racism, and meaningfully inform conversations about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in pharmacy education.
南方药学院的种族隔离解除过程漫长而艰难。尽管存在持续的抗议、斗争和诉讼，但许多药学院直到20世纪70年代才迎来首批黑人毕业生。1962年，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校药学院无意间实现了种族融合，当时该校第一名黑人学生威廉·威克被意外录取。他的个人故事以及他在种族隔离解除方面的先驱同伴莫娜（波士顿）·雷迪克和詹姆斯·巴恩斯的故事，为多元化、公平和包容工作提供了宝贵的背景。种族隔离解除在时间上的接近，使得在南方广泛提供药学教育的时代接受培训的黑人药剂师，在药学界仅经历了一代或两代。这些故事体现了种族隔离的遗产，直面结构性种族主义的持续影响，并为药学教育中关于多元化、公平和包容的对话提供了有意义的参考。
