Mourned a baby girl who a nurse told her died hours after she gave birth to her. diane was born november 25th 1965. diane. the name zella jackson game to her daughter born to this hospital closed down in 1979 and now the site of a senior apartment complex. zella never received a birth certificate or death certificate certificate, it was like she never existed. did she ever say do you want to see her. no they didn t. and another girl was born the next day, adopted, wondering why her mother gave her away. she lost her hearing when she was ayounger and she found out
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So in the case of zella jackson price, the reason this came unpound is because zella jackson s prized child was hearing disabled, and at some point instead of being sold through adoption, that baby came back and they couldn t give her back because they told price she was dead, and they had to put her in the foster care system which opened up a whole new paperwork that let us get at it. thank you, and it s heartbreaking. it s vital those in the country outside of st. louis know about it because it has been 50 years and people have moved all over. no doubt. thank you so much for all the work you are doing and for talking with us about it, and we obviously keep you posted as we continue to learn more about that. meanwhile, ferguson had some of the same problems that baltimore is now going through, and that city was able, it
And some gravely ill, and african-american women who had children in the 50s and 60s in st. louis at a time when the city was extraordinary segregated, and even up until 1955, this hospital, homer g. phillips hospital was the black hospital, and they had a white hospital and a black hospital, and every one of these girls that went into the hospital, 15, 16, 17, 18, and they were young and very alone, and when they started to call in to zella jackson price and to subsequently, us, the stories that were related had key similarities and nuances which indicated that they were they had experienced something that zella jackson price had as well, and with zella jackson price, we had her baby, though. most of the births were in the 1950s to 1960s and all
Paperwork because she was only 15 years old. and al, thank you so much. you talked to some of these women. help us understand emotionally where they are with this, because i just cannot imagine. these are women that have spent the better part of their adult lives with a gnawing feeling that they simply can t shake. when they saw the reunion of zella jackson price with her daughter 49 plus years following their separation at birth, they were struck it was like opening a wound again, only it s not picking at a scab, it s a gaping head wound. it s something that we have to understand, these are not individuals who have seen a bus accident and are running on to the bus to say they have a claim, too. these are older, generally late 60s and 70s and some in the 80s,