Michelle Browder has plans for a museum and clinic where 19th-century physician J. Marion Sims conducted cruel medical trials on Black women
Starting from the time she was a college student, Browder made it her mission to memorialize Sims’s victims and underscore the racism he helped sow in the medical field.
The painting — and what it represents — has been at the forefront of her work. In 2016, she opened a civil rights tour company calledwhich stops at lynching sites, Montgomery’s former market that auctioned enslaved people, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s home and neighborhood, as well as other historical monuments around the city. She stops the tour bus at a statue of Sims, located on the lawn of the Alabama State House.
Knowing it would be nearly impossible to get the Sims statue removed — in 2017, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey . She held part of it in the same location where Sims performed his surgeries, which he called the “Negro Hospital.”
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