User:Jrobert00/Mamie Odessa Hale

Education/Accomplishments Summary
Developed initiative programs for midwives
 * Tuskegee School of Nurse-Midwifery for Colored Nurses in Alabama
 * Arkansas State Board of Health public health nurse for the Crittendon County Health Department (1942–1945)
 * Midwife consultant for the Arkansas Health Department's Maternal and Child Health Division (1945–1950)
 * Midwife course professor
 * Advocated for the importance of midwives

Influence on the Culture of Midwives and African Americans
Mamie Odessa Hale was a very profound figure in the process for advocating for more African-American midwives. While hail experience many hardships, she accomplished many things, such as many different forms of education, developing initiative program for midwives, and becoming a course professor to inform midwives of their future work. When she attended the Arkansas department of health, she was in charge of informing all the midwives information in the field. She also taught how to take care of new mothers and their midwives after birth, ultimately improving, maternal mortality rate among African-American women. But before she could attend the school, she faced hardships when trying to obtain her bachelors degree, as she was given no advisement on how to obtain the degree. She was resilient and worked around a problem and obtained the degree, undoubtedly starting her career in the field of midwives.Hale help society, realize the difference in infant mortality rates between white and black women. Well, she realized that the infant mortality rate was higher amongst African-American women, she focused on improving the field of midwives and advocating for black mothers. In doing so, Hale improved the field of midwives for African-American women by not only educating, illiterate midwives, but creating courses and programs for them to go through to be fully educated in the field of midwives and further their career in this study. Women who attended these courses, attain the registration, and became official midwives, improving the field midwives for African-Americans in the future.