The Omaha guide., 1934-05-26

"6"iiiSI OCCcIiIi1IleO OppOS-
ition. Also in 1928 the Charleston, W.
Va branch won for Negroes the right
to use the public library in that city.
In 1929 the Association gained wide
spread publicity for its fight against
race prejudice and discrimination in
a Epicopal church in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The fight gainst segregation and
discrimination on the railroads began
as early as 1912, when the Associat-
ion projected the appointment to the
supreme court bench Of Judge who
rendered a decision permitting the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail
rod company to refuse servise to Neg
roes in ding and sleeping cars. The
appointment was not made. In 1o13se-
veral suits brought against
the Baltimore, Chespeak and Atlant-
ic railway company for discriminate
on on. Through the efforts of the CHI
icago branch a bill for Jim crow car
service was defeated in the Illinois
Legislature. In 1918 the Baltimore
branch aided a colored women to win
judgement damages andcosts from
the Washington, Baltimore and Ann
apolis railway company The following
yer spirited protest of the Association
forced the abandonment Of a policy
inaugurated by the U. s. railway tic
ket office in Cleveland. o. to halt the
flight of Negroes from the South by
refusing to sell tickets from southern
pints t that city. During tn sam period
Determination in travel was investig-
ated by the Charleston w. Va. Danv-
lille Va. San Aantone Texas Bowling
Green KY. and New York branches. an
the Detroit branch was successful in
haltingattempts to jim crow colored
passengers on the Michigan Central
railway between Detroit and Cincin-
natl
In 1926 the Association aided in a
suite brougt by Miss Blanch Brookins
against the Atlantic Coast railroad
line for permitting her to be removed
from pullman car Jailed over night
and fined $500 and costs at Palatka
Florid. The NAACP secured Arthur
Grfield Hays as attorney and in 1928
the railroad settled out Of court for
S2,75O.
The Fight Against Medical Jim Crow
The Assertion has waged a con-
tinual fight against discrimination and
4su!e5e pue 'sIe4!dsoq u! uone5el5es
efforts of philanthropists to uild jim
crow hospitals in the North. 1t has
consistently fought o square deal for
physicians, internes, nurses and pa
tients. In the case of Harlem hos
pital, a municipally-owned institu-
ton in New York City, which dis
elimination against Negroes, the As
ISOLATION took the lead in organizing a
committee of prominent persons in
1921 to go before the Mayor and de-
mand fair treatment. The Commits
sioners of Hospitals agreed finally
tht colored people should have re-
presentation on the hospitals med
icau board.
Following much publicity in the
white and Negro press on the Amer
lean Hospital Association offered to
to secure a $2,0O0,00 Negro hospit-
al if the Associations activity were
halted. The committee replied that
they were interested in procuring
the rights of colored patients, nurses,
doctors and surgeons in a municipal
hospital, and not is securing a seq
regation. The committee secured the
services of an investigator and two
well-known attorneys AS a result
of this action the color bar was lower
ed, Negro physicians and nurses were
appointed to the Harlem staff and
colored patients were given better
treatment. In 1926 more Negro
physicians wereput on the staff and
ten colored internes were accepted,
marking the first time Negro ply
clans were aver appointed to the re-
gular staff of o metropolitan municip-
al hospital.
Following drastic reorganization of
the HARLEM hospital staff in 1880, an
even larger number Of colored ply
sicins were added to the staff and a
Negro surgeon.Dr. Louis Wright, be-
came member and secretary of the
medical bord Of the hospital.
In 1881 the board ~ofdirectors of
the N. A. A. c. P. went on record
as opposed to the plan announced by
the Rosenwald Fund for seperate hos
pitalization for Negroes in various
parts of the country, holding that
segregation in education and med
ical car tends to provide neither
the best opportunity for doctors and
nurses nor to create standard hos
pitfalls on WHICH the general health of
the community depends" It held that
Negroes in the North should be adj
mitted without discrimination in the
great medical schools and HOSPITALS
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