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Maude, a dark-skinned Black woman wearing glasses and smiling with her teeth, holds up an award shaped like South Carolina.
Maude E. Callen poses with one of many awards she's gotten for her midwifery work.

Maude Callen becomes a nurse midwife, providing care to thousands in Hell Hole Swamp.

1923

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Maude E. Callen poses with one of many awards she's gotten for her midwifery work.

Callen provides care-beyond-care to this Black community in South Carolina for years on her own, driving thousands of miles each year to reach isolated community members.

After she is featured in a 1951 Life Magazine article, donations pour in and Callen will set up a clinic that she will run until her retirement in 1971. The clinic will then become a social and care space for local elders.