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From the Washington Post. Very sad and makes me angry.
Is there any sort of legal recourse for something like this?
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One woman and her long-lost daughter may have brought a dark chapter from St. Louis history to light.
As a 26-year-old woman in 1965, Zella Jackson Price was told that her daughter had died shortly after birth. Nearly 50 years later, though, Jackson Price learned that her daughter has been alive all along.
Melanie Diane Gilmore, also known as “Baby Diane,” is now 49 and living in Oregon. After mother and daughter reunited last month, thanks to some Facebook sleuthing by Gilmore’s children, dozens of other women have come forward with eerily similar and potentially tragic stories.
They had all given birth to children at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, which was at one point the only hospital dedicated to serving African Americans in racially segregated St. Louis.................
They were told their babies had died. Now, these black women wonder: Was it a lie? - The Washington Post
Is there any sort of legal recourse for something like this?
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One woman and her long-lost daughter may have brought a dark chapter from St. Louis history to light.
As a 26-year-old woman in 1965, Zella Jackson Price was told that her daughter had died shortly after birth. Nearly 50 years later, though, Jackson Price learned that her daughter has been alive all along.
Melanie Diane Gilmore, also known as “Baby Diane,” is now 49 and living in Oregon. After mother and daughter reunited last month, thanks to some Facebook sleuthing by Gilmore’s children, dozens of other women have come forward with eerily similar and potentially tragic stories.
They had all given birth to children at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, which was at one point the only hospital dedicated to serving African Americans in racially segregated St. Louis.................
They were told their babies had died. Now, these black women wonder: Was it a lie? - The Washington Post