Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-01-23


miles from the scene Of the acct
dent, space was found for them In
a Negro hospital And nearly four
hours after the accident, they 70.
csiyed adequate medical attention
for the first time.
One Of this boys died an hour
after reaching the Fayetteville in
stitution. The second remained UNI
conscious for two weeks. but re-
covered. tBource: Report of
President Brawley OF Clark Col
Iego, December IS, 1917
9. In December Of 1919, a Puer-
10 Rlean-born author. Eric Her
culss. WAS struck down by an
auto in Chicago An Ambulance
took him 10 Woodlawn Hospital,
where. an hour and forty-five
minutes later. he was transferred
10 the Cook County Hospital.
Three hours later he was dead Of
q fractured skull.
The supervisor at woodlawn
was quoted as offering this rea-
son for refusing Hercules admis-
sion: II don't think we had bed.
room AT the time. We could have
sot up q bed in the hallway. but
did not want 20 assume the re-
sponsibllity for the man" Wood
lawn generally only accepts Ne
groea a. out-patients. (sourcs:
The Chicago Defender. December
II. 1891
7, on August n, 1850. three VIC
Tins Of an auto accident we're de-
MED beds In Breckenridge County
Hospital, HardInsburg, Kentucky.
because the establishmet had no
facilities for colored people"
They were left lying on the floor
Of the emergency room for three
hours. Their wounds were intend
I'd and the only medication given
them was morphine,
Ono OF the men died on the floor
and. ironically, his family later
received q bin for services rem
dered." The others were removed
10 Louisville General Hospital
where they eventually recovered
one sustaining permanent par.
tial paralysis N the result OF q
broken back. Csource' Interracial
Hospital Movement, Louisville,
Kentucky.
4. On December o, 1860, Mat.
thew Avery. a ~ yeRr-old World
War II veteran attending North
Carolina A a r College, was crit
ically injured In an automobile ac-
oldent near Mebane, North Caro-
lima. lie was brought to Aiamance
General Hospital, where II was
learned he had sustained frac-
lures Of the skull. cheekbone, Jaw.
leg and arm.
But every one of Alamance's
five Negro beds was full 30 he
was rushed on 10 Duke Hospital
at Durham. Here, according 10
the account Of the auperintend-
emit, Our regular facilities were
filled e. O., the Negro ward was
filledl and the question whether
Avery would stand tho best
chance from treatment In our
emergency room or by transfer to
Lincoln Hospital "a. Negro In
stitutionl was debated.
The latter course OF action was
decided upon and Avery was sent
TO Lincoln where he died an hour
after admission. Despite Dukes
apparent aohcitude. the ambu-
lance drivers request that some
one phone ahead 10 Lincoln went
UNDECIDED. Attaches there reported
no such cali had been received and
they had been unable to make any
preparations for the patients ar
rival, (SourceR; AfrO-Amsrican,
December 10. 1850: Carolina
Ttmea, December 0. 1880: North
Carolina A q T Register, January
1881
., In February, 1851. an Is-year
old boy, suffering from sugar dia-
betea. died after being refused I'D
mission TO the Akron CO., City
Hospital When the lad. Robert
Hudson, q star high school bas-
ketball player. became seriously
M, hts physician tried TO place
him In one % the city's three hos.
pitfalls, hut the best he could do
was 10 get him on the waiting
list where he remained for "a
hours When Hudson lapsed into
coma about midnight, his
mother called an ambulance. took
him TO City Hospital and sought
q room without success Hudson
died In the emergency room five
hours later.
The hospital could not provide .
bed because they claimed they
were all filled up" What was
meant was that all the Negro
beds werr nlled. While the wards
were not segregated, Il was the
hospitals policy not 60 mix" It's
scmi.private rooms their being
occupied on either an An-white or
an al-Negro basis
while Hudson lay DYING. there
was an empty bod but Il was In