{"id":5126,"date":"2013-11-18T04:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T04:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:01:22","slug":"the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hartford Circus Fire and Aetna Ambulance: Volume 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>by Sam Porcello<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-1\/\">Miss earlier volumes? Click here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5127\" alt=\"bb20d332c8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bb20d332c8-300x250.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bb20d332c8-300x250.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bb20d332c8-359x300.gif 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>One of the things that surprised me the most during my project research was the fact that the Gradys concealed their ownership of Aetna Ambulance, afraid that, 20 years before the Civil Rights Amendment, people would be reluctant to do business with African Americans.\u00a0 As Mrs. Grady recounted:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c(My family) found it difficult to get loans to finance their business.\u00a0 My dad was a local artist and would use what money he received from selling his paintings into the ambulance business.\u00a0 He was also a barber!\u00a0 They would conceal their ownership in the following ways: 1) By calling their business Aetna [ostensibly named, with permission, after the insurance company that they worked for] instead of Grady Ambulance because they knew that the general public would probably not do business with them because of the color of their skin; 2) When they appeared in photographs together helping patients they were careful not to have their names recorded or their actual relationship to the business recorded.\u00a0 People would believe that they were only the \u2018ambulance attendants\u2019 which was the intention.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sam Porcello Miss earlier volumes? Click here\u2026 One of the things that surprised me the most during my project research was the fact that the Gradys concealed their ownership of Aetna Ambulance, afraid that, 20 years before the Civil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/the-hartford-circus-fire-and-aetna-ambulance-volume-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116,43,9],"tags":[357,424,497,425,496],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}