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HELP US PRESERVE THE HISTORIC SCOTT FORD HOUSES
We are dedicated to restoring and operating the site as the Scott Ford House museum complex (two houses, wash house, chicken coop and gardens) in the Farish Street Historic District.
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BLACK GRANNY MIDWIVES IN THE RURAL SOUTH
“Granny” midwife is a generalized term used to describe midwives after the colonial, early American, and antebellum slave period. The health practices of these Granny midwives came from a variety of tribes largely based on West African traditions. On plantations, older female slaves, no longer able to work in the fields, were devalued unless they were midwives.
The historical role of the African American midwife was one of hope and health; whose expertise helped define cultural perceptions of motherhood, protected, uplifted and empowered women and men, and improved maternity care in communities across the nation.
Shafia M. Monroe
DEM, CDT, MPH
STEPPING STONES FROM JIM CROW TO CIVIL RIGHTS
Located in the heart of Jackson, Mississippi’s Farish Street Historic District at 136 and 138 East Cohea Street, the Scott Ford houses were built from 1891 to 1892. .
Mary Green Scott, a formerly enslaved woman, and her daughter and son-in-law, Virginia and John Ford, were among the first African Americans to build homes on Cohea Street after the Civil War ended, and their descendants owned the properties for more than a century. The late Mrs. Ruth Weir (pictured above) was a direct descendant of Mary Scott and Virgina Scott Ford. Mrs. Weir's sons still reside in the Jackson Metropolitan Area.
