Freedom House Paramedics
In this episode we discuss Freedom House Paramedics, a group of Black men and women from Pittsburgh who would become the first professionally trained paramedics.
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Audio Clip
Freedom House paramedics – inner city emergency care makes history by Tené Croom
Resources
The Little-Known History of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics by Olivia B. Waxman
Freedom House Ambulance Service by 99% Invisible
How Pittsburgh’s ‘Freedom House’ shaped modern EMS systems by EMS1 & NEMSMA
