Struggling for Respect | Idella Bodie's S.C. Women - Episode 108

Anne Austin Young, Part 8 - Anne Struggles To Gain Respect as a Doctor 

Anne excels to the top of her class in medical school. A requirement for her graduation is to deliver twenty babies for underprivileged families in the community. As a doctor, Anne still receives harassment and ridicule.

In a time period when women were expected to fill certain roles and expectations in society, Cross Hill native, Dr. Anne Austin Young dedicated her life to the study of medicine, becoming one of the first female doctors and obstetrician-gynecologists in the state of South Carolina.

Standards

• 3-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the major developments in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and the twentieth century.
  • South Carolina experienced major economic, political, and social changes during the late nineteenth and the twentieth century. To understand the effects of these changes, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following ind...
    • 3-5.2 Explain the causes and impact of emigration from South Carolina and internal migration from rural areas to the cities, including discrimination and unemployment; poor sanitation and transportation services; and the lack of electricity and other m...
    • 3-5.3 Explain the effects of the Great Depression on daily life in South Carolina, including the widespread poverty and unemployment and the efforts of the federal government to create jobs through a variety of New Deal programs.
• 8-6 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the role of South Carolina in the nation in the early twentieth century.
  • South Carolina’s response to national crises during the first half of the twentieth century brought it back into full participation in the national experience. To understand the state’s changed status, the student will utilize the knowledg...
    • 8-6.2 Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and the nation as a whole in the 1920s, including Prohibition, the destruction caused by the boll weevil, the rise of mass media, improvements in daily life, increases in tourism and rec...
    • 8-6.3 Explain the reasons for depressed conditions in the textile mills and on farms in South Carolina and other regions of the United States in the 1920s and the impact of these conditions on the coming of the Great Depression.

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