Dr. Hill didn't even seek admission for his wife and unborn baby. Mother and new-born baby both died on the operating table just before dawn. He has learned his lesson well. He is a black man in a white world. You didn't even ask Clarksdale Hospital authorities to admit your wife.
Hospitals are for white people.
White people do not admit black folk to their hospitals. Black folk do not even ask for admission. They just die. But I wasn't satisfied. Back home, and a white man myself again, I decided that here was one barbarity charged to my race that I'd disprove.