World Polio Day 2023: Judge Myron Thompson

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0:00 My name is Myron Thompson
0:02 I am a United States district judge
0:04 and I am a polio survivor.
0:08 I was completely paralyzed at age 2.
0:11 It was 1949
0:13 in the segregated South
0:15 and people like me didn't receive adequate health care from White hospitals.
0:20 Luckily, my mother took me to the Infantile Paralysis Center
0:23 on Tuskegee Institute's college campus.
0:27 It was one of the only places where
0:29 Black polio patients like me could receive care.
0:34 And thanks to my caretakers, I, now, walk the halls
0:38 of an historic courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama.
0:42 A courthouse that played a significant role in the Civil Rights movement.
0:47 Both the Infantile Paralysis Center
0:50 and this courthouse have taught me
0:53 that all people should be treated with dignity and respect.