The People’s Dispensary, the first of a series of arts-inspired community gatherings offered by the Friends of the Tanner House, will take place on Sunday, October 8.
The People’s Dispensary, the first of a series of arts-inspired community gatherings offered by the Friends of the Tanner House, will take place this Sunday.
Qiaira Riley, the artist partner working with the Friends group, said she wanted to plan the community gatherings by focusing on different members of the Tanner family.As she prepared for the community gatherings, Riley learned more about Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson, one of the artist’s sisters. She was the staff physician at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama between 1891 and 1894.
In addition to being responsible for the health care of the students and faculty, Dillon Johnson started a nursing school on campus and also opened the“She was doing research and writing about poor health conditions,” Riley said. “And a lot of Black women in Philadelphia today are making herbal medicines.”In 1894, Tanner Dillon, then a young widow, married John Quincy Johnson, a minister and mathematics teacher at Tuskegee.
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