Oretha Castle served as a deputy administrator at Charity Hospital where she instituted better health care for the Black Community. While working at the hospital, she helped organize the New Orleans Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation. Castle was born in Oakland, Tennessee and moved to New Orleans with her parents in 1947. Haley’s father found work […]

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