Medical teams from the Winters clinic went door-to-door assisting people with their health problems according to Abron. According to that account the Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Medical Care Center pro-vided services and patient advocacy in a remodeled storefront.
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In November 1969 fellow Panther Spurgeon Jake Winters 19 for whom the party named their medical center in Lawndale died in a shootout with police.
Jake winters medical clinic. At 330 AM November 13 Jake was murdered in a shoot-out in Chicago where three Pigs. Between the death of Jimmy PalmerLarry Roberson and the death of Jake Winters as the film. Care needs of medically underserved and uninsured by establishing free medical clinics to 3 Ibid 4 Tolbert Small interview with author phone interview February 8 2011.
At the opening of the Black Panther Partys Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Medical Center the clinics first patient Lovie Bernard is. According to that account the Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Medical Care Center provided services and patient advocacy in a remodeled storefront facility in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. Nurse Florence Watson talks with young men at the opening of the Black Panther Partys Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Medical Center Chicago.
Chicagos Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Medical Care Center was one of the best-run and most-respected Panther health clinics serving over two thousand people in its initial two months. Many clinics were named for Panthers who died at the hands of police. The Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Medical Care Center a free medical clinic for poor Black people living in Chicago was run by the Black Panther Party honoring what Winters meant to their movement.
Two officers died too. The Peoples Free Breakfast Program The Jake Winters Peoples Free Medical Clinic the formation of the Rainbow Coalition that eventually led to the election of President Barack Obama are all legacies of not only Fred Hamptons leadership but of the many people who worked sacrificed and risked their lives as members of the Black. The clinics work was described very positively in a survey of Chicago free medical clinics published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1972.
The Black Panthers treated Winters as a martyr and named their medical clinic after. A clinic in Portland Oregon would be named for Fred Hampton Nelson 2011 p. Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Clinic Dedication American social activist and Illinois Black Panther Party chapter founder and future politician Bobby Rush left clasps hands with an unidentified man during the dedication of the Black Panther Partys Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Medical Center at 3850 West 16th Street Chicago.
Spurgeon Jake Winters 19 member of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther party paid the most that one can pay towards the liberation of oppressed people in his life. Spurgeon Jake Winters Algee. Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Medical Center run by the Black Panthers dedication at 3850 West 16th Street Chicago Illinois December 25 1969.
He died in 1990 and a medical examiner determined the cause of death was suicide. She helped solicit doctors to volunteer their time at the BPP clinics. To many youth of the era Hampton a Maywood native was a rising star a hip young revolutionary pushing for black empowerment free medical clinics and lunch programs for kids.
Its a huge undertaking even if Winters story isnt that well-known but with Smith wanting to work in a wide variety of films. Spurgeon Jake Winters Community Health Clinic in Chicago50. At the opening of the Black Panther Partys Spurgeon Jake Winters Free Peoples Medical Center at 3850 West 16th Street the clinics first patient Lovie Bernard left is examined by nurse Florence Watson Chicago Illinois January 4 1970.
Paula and Susan Fox wearing a nursing uniform at Wesley Memorial Hospital Chicago Illinois 1960. The clinics work was described very positively in a survey of Chicago free medical clinics published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1972. The Black Panther newspaper reported the shootings this way.
The Chicago clinic was named for Spurgeon Jake Winters who died in a police shoot out just weeks before the fatal raid that killed Hampton Young and Fiffer 2016. Oakland CA 8 April 1968 - A young boy wipes away tears as a Black Panther Party and Peace and Freedom sponsored march heads east on 49th StreetSign.
