{"id":59637,"date":"2020-03-22T02:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T02:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59637"},"modified":"2020-03-22T02:18:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T02:18:55","slug":"the-famous-fultz-quads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59637","title":{"rendered":"The Famous Fultz Quads"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Famous Fultz Quads<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stanford University Press Blog<\/a>
\nFebruary 2020<\/p>\n

Andrea Freeman<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Law
\nWilliam S. Richardson School of Law<\/em>
\nUniversity of Hawai\u2019i, M\u0101noa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>
\nPet Milk<\/a> ad featuring the Fultz quadruplets. Their doctor sold the rights to use the sisters for marketing purposes to the highest-bidding formula company.<\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cFour Little Babies.\u201d Pet Milk, \u201cFour Little Babies Become Four Little Ladies,\u201d advertisement, Pittsburgh Courier<\/em>, October 22, 1949, 5. Public Domain.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The origin of America’s first surviving set of identical quadruplets<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re pleased to present an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice<\/em><\/a> \u00bb by Andrea Freeman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Annie Mae Fultz could not afford to let anything go wrong with her pregnancy. Her doctor, Fred Klenner, had detected three tiny heartbeats inside her. It was 1946. Annie Mae was a tall, strong, thirty-seven-year-old half-Black, half-Cherokee woman from Tennessee<\/a>.1<\/sup> Dr. Klenner, although originally from Pennsylvania<\/a>, happily adhered to southern racial norms.2<\/sup> He had separate waiting rooms for Blacks and Whites in his downtown Reidsville, North Carolina<\/a>, office. The old-fashioned decor of his practice matched his dated views. His segregated waiting rooms gave way to treatment rooms full of ancient furniture and unusual medical instruments.3<\/sup> His walls displayed White supremacist literature and, later, a \u201cVote for George Wallace<\/a>\u201d poster.4<\/sup> He vigorously defended Hitler<\/a> as misunderstood to anyone who would listen.5<\/sup> The local hospital where he delivered babies, Annie Penn Memorial, relegated Black mothers to the basement.6<\/sup> Despite his unapologetic racism, Annie Mae had faith in Dr. Klenner\u2019s medical abilities…<\/p>\n

Read the entire chapter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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