Claim: Photograph shows a KKK member being treated by an all-black emergency room staff.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
text: and the end of racist treatment by white hospital workers. White doctors and nurses openly referred to black hospital workers as 'monkey grunts' and 'niggers,' and hospital administrators paid white staff more for the same jobs done by blacks. Working conditions at the hospital were described by organizers as similar to the 'plantation overseer-slave relationship.' In the late winter of 1968, the hospital's nonprofessional workers, led by Naomi White, contacted the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) for assistance. The SCLC asked Local 1199 - which had extensive links with the civil rights movement - to help the workers form a

title: Gary Thomas Rowe
text: life-threatening injuries either from the beatings done by the Ku Klux Klan, or from prolonged exposure to the smoke and fumes from the destroyed bus, and were sent to Anniston Memorial Hospital for immediate attention. When an ambulance arrived, some of the black Freedom Riders were refused a ride to the hospital by the driver until several white Freedom Riders who were injured, got off the bus and only came if their fellow Riders who were black could be allowed to ride. When the injured Freedom Riders arrived at the hospital there was no doctor present, only nurses to provide

title: Union Correctional Institution
text: significant, however, after a review of public records and court files revealed over 100 black agency employees were involved in lawsuits alleging rampant racism and discrimination in the prison system. Perhaps worst of these allegations, a black recreation manager once arrived at his desk to find across his bulletin board the letters "KKK". The report also included the story of a 1993 incident; inmates on death-row were exposed to a man wearing a KKK-style white sheet walking by their cells. Union Correctional Institution The Union Correctional Institution, formerly referred to as Florida State Prison, Raiford Prison and State Prison Farm

title: Akinwale Arobieke
text: a visit to GMP headquarters on 9 December 2013, a staff member "came from behind the counter and confronted him in a threatening manner". The report said CCTV was viewed and "the conduct of the counter clerk was overly confrontational and likely to cause offence". The staff member "has been formally advised about his conduct". In 2016, police began investigating an allegation against the BBC of incitement to racial hatred after Arobieke complained that the 2016 documentary, "The Man Who Squeezes Muscles: Searching for Purple Aki," was racist. In the film he is referred to as a “big black” man

title: The Problem We All Live With
text: is written the racial slur "nigger" and the letters "KKK"; a smashed and splattered tomato thrown against the wall is also visible. The white protesters are not visible, as the viewer is looking at the scene from their point of view. The painting is oil on canvas and measures high by wide. The painting was originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of "Look". Rockwell had ended his contract with the "Saturday Evening Post" the previous year due to frustration with the limits the magazine placed on his expression of political themes, and "Look" offered him

title: Paramedics incident in Oslo 2007
text: considered the paramedics to be disrespectful towards Ali Farah owing to his ethnicity, and therefore also racists. The case was widely covered in Norwegian media and a heated national debate ensued. Most of the media articles focused on the failure of the paramedics to properly deal with the victim, and hence portrayed this incident as one of racial discrimination. The photograph that the media used to strengthen this claim showed an injured victim lying on the ground bleeding heavily from the nose. This picture clearly contradicted the paramedic's version of events in which they claimed that Farah was standing up

title: Gary Franks
text: burned down by the Ku Klux Klan, and that after he sued a hospital following the death of his sister, the "hospital has taken it upon itself to retaliate in this manner, working through one or two newspapers to spread these stories that are just so fictitious and so libelous, and so hateful". In 2015, Franks was featured in the Wall Street Journal piece ""Making the Republican Case for Black Support."" Franks says, "Yes, you’ve got to show up but it’s more than that. You’ve got to explain that participating in only one half of a [two-party] system doesn’t work.

title: Black Skinhead
text: The user's cursor changes to that of a black hand giving the middle finger when interacting with the video. Pitchfork Media noted that apart from interactivity, the video itself is identical to the version that was leaked ahead of release. The video opens with three figures wearing black conical hoods, reminiscent of those worn by the Ku Klux Klan; their hoods form a black border that envelops most of the screen, while the silhouettes of the outlying cones stay on each end. The primary action of the video takes place in the middle portion of the screen, which is occupied

title: The Modern Samson
text: draft riots of New York City, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Reconstruction race riots in Memphis and New Orleans; wearing another Ku Klux Klan breastplate, former Confederate Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes; and 23rd New York Governor John Hoffman with a generic Catholic Irish-American under his arm. On the far right, a statue of President Andrew Johnson is likened to a "Moses" of the black Americans holding a tablet labeled "veto" to remind the audience of his recent Reconstruction legislation veto. Under the statue is a snake with horns similar to the hair of the depiction of Seymour, alluding to

title: Dying While Black
text: Randall states that they are a direct result of slavery and the lack of health care that was provided from the time of slavery to the Jim Crow laws, the Affirmative Action time, and to the Racial Entrenchment time of the present. She points out the racial barriers to the access of health care, nursing homes, hospitals, physicians, and other professionals. In addition, she acknowledges a lack of minority health professionals and thus a shortage of minority input into the health care system. She insists that the health care system rid itself of intentional and inadvertent racism. The managed care

title: Genevieve Hughes
text: a woman doctor came in—she had to look up smoke poisoning before treating us. They brought in the Negro man who had been in the back of the bus with me. I pointed to him and told them to take care of him. But they did not bring him into our emergency room. I understand that they did not do anything at all for Hank. Thirteen in all were brought in, and three were admitted: Ed, the Negro man and myself. They gave me a room and I slept. When I woke up the nurse asked me if I could

title: Tales from the Hood
text: been hired by the government to administer a rehabilitation process on Crazy K in hopes that he will change his ways. Crazy K is put through a process of torture to make him learn the consequences of his actions. His hair (with K cut into the front) is shaved off he is put through a slideshow of images involving KKK members and victims of lynching along with gory footage of gang violence along with a montage showing all those he has killed. Dr. Cushing goes into the fact that Crazy K killed many innocent African Americans without remorse or second

title: Race and health in the United States
text: necessary coronary bypass surgeries and lipid-lowering medications upon discharge from the hospital. This means that black patients leave treatment centers with a significantly different health outcome. One potential cause of this discrepancy in treatment is the systematic racism present in the medical field that targets the work of African American scientists. Research shows that doctors and scientists of color are significantly underfunded in the medical community, and are less likely than their white colleagues to win research awards from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Since patients of color are often treated by white doctors, miscommunication is common; research shows

title: Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center
text: the personnel of the hospital and the Veterans’ Bureau promised him categorically that he would be consulted before anybody was appointed superintendent of the hospital. Colonel Robert H. Stanley, a white man, was made superintendent of the hospital and arrived at Tuskegee two days before Dr. Moton was notified. Members of a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan marched on the hospital, but their action resulted in a broader campaign by the NAACP and NMA, attracting national attention. Tuskegee whites did not gain the support of others in the South. The VA invited their participation in selection of a

title: Boyd Rice
text: Front were photographed for "Sassy Magazine" wearing uniforms and brandishing knives. While Rice would later recall it as a prank, the photo has caused boycotts and protests at many of Rice's appearances. When asked if he regrets the photo, Rice stated, "I don't care. I don't think I ever made a wrong move. The bad stuff is just good. America loves its villains". This photograph was additionally published in the book "Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture" by James Ridgeway. More controversy has resulted because of

title: Tyler Shields
text: Haynes and Emily Bett. Shields' series "Historical Fiction" [2015] featured a black man hanging a KKK member. The series covered events as the deaths of James Dean, John F Kennedy, Dr Martin Luther King, and Marilyn Monroe; the first men on the moon; and the break-up of The Beatles. In his 2014 series "Provocateur", he had an alligator biting a crocodile bag. Another photograph from this series, "Three Witches," was included as part of the Sotheby's auction in London. His photograph "Bunny" was featured in the Phillip's London auction. Tyler Shields is well known for taking other artists concepts and

title: Cross burning
text: girl's blood. A kangaroo court is convened, hears the colonel's testimony of the girl's dying words, finds the captain guilty of murder, and executes him. The clan members place his body on the front porch of the South Carolina governor's mansion with a square piece of white sheeting with the initials KKK. The second sequence depicts the aftermath of two home invasions. The first occurs at the governor's mansion. A black member of the South Carolina legislature proposes to the governor's daughter and, when she refuses, threatens her with weapons. The governor attempts to intervene and is taken captive. The

title: Haley Barbour
text: between the White Citizens' Councils and the KKK, and referred to the Councils as "an organization of town leaders". Barbour continued in his defense of the Councils, saying, "In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City." Barbour's statement did not address the role of the white supremacist group in publicly naming and blacklisting individuals

title: Matthew Williams (laborer)
text: gotten in the hospital and seized Williams. The colored ward is on the first floor towards the rear of the building." "Instead of carrying his body through the door, the men threw him out of the first floor window to a large group of men. Williams had on the regulation hospital gown and his head was swathed in bandages which covered his eyes and his feet were bare.""Seemingly in a semi-conscious condition, the fellow was dragged to the court house lawn..."The following is from the edition of December 5 of the Baltimore Post:"The Negro was dragged from, a hospital cot

title: Mercy Hospital (St. Petersburg, Florida)
text: x-ray equipment, no room for the recovery of patients, and no physical therapy service to a newspaper, the city council refuted the proposed $1.7 million addition to it in 1960. It was not until blacks got tired of the "separate but equal" doctrine when the city wanted to build an additional wing for black patients at Mound Park that Mercy Hospital was integrated. Mrs. Altamease Chapman was the first black to be allowed in and treated in Mount Park on February 26, 1961 by Dr. Fred Alsup. However, she was sent to the last available room in the surgery section