(Source of image: Florida Photographic Collection, Florida State Archives)

Standing somewhere in the back row is Mrs. Rebecca Singleton, who delivered some 500 babies.  These midwives were attending a seminar at Edward Waters College, the historic, traditionally African American institution in Jacksonville.  The date is not given by the State Archives of Florida. 

It’s interesting to note that, in Florida's Panhandle, one African American midwife delivered more than 2,000 infants.  Herself the mother of seven, the late Gladys Nichols Milton gained national recognition during the late 1970s.  She battled against the State’s attempt to ban midwifery, and she even persevered through the burning of both her home and clinic.  Ms. Milton spearheaded the successful legislative fight for the acknowledgement of midwives as legitimate medical practitioners.  As noted by Mary Joe Clendenin at Our-Town.com, Ms. Milton was a large woman, with size 12 B shoes, who achieved her dream of leaving big footprints in the sands of time.

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