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

Flax University, and three stu.
dents became involved In an auto
accident on tho outskirts Of Dial.
ton, Ga. Miss Derricotts and Mas
Nina johnson, a Fisk senior. were
critically injured.
Three white physicians admin
latered first aid treatment In their
homes, then took the women 10 n
house where Negroes are sent In
emergencies, Completely uncon.
sidered was the modern. publicly
supported Hamilton Memorial
Hospital at Dalton. When asked
II any effort had been made "a
gain admission at that institution,
one Of the white doctors replied In
surprise, "Oh no, ma'Am, You see
we don't have any wards for them
there"
Subsequently. although The In.
Iared women were clearly In q
grave condition. an ambulance had
to be summoned from Chattan.
ooga, 90 miles away, to take them
10 u hospital there.
Miss johnson died that night
Miss Derricotte tho next day
tsoures; The Crisis, March, 1882.
.. In March, 1899, a i7.year old
Negro girl. with n bullet wound In
her head, was denied admission Ia
two hospitals In Washington, -
c.. sibiey Hospital and Horace
pathle Hospital
Finally she was taken to freed
mans Hospital, but was dead on
arrival. (Sourcea; Washington
Tribune. March 4. 1882 Negro
World. New York, March 10,
1851 Thirteen years later sib-
ley Hospital. n church supported
institution, was the scene Of an.
othor unaecmly episode. A Negro
woman, In labor. was denied al.
mission TO the emergency ward
As a result. her child was deliver.
cd on the cold windswept side
walk outside. The hospital staff
did supply n sheet TO cover the
mother and child until the mum.
cipaI ambulance arrived To- take
them Off, tSource! Survey Ora
phic, January. ipA7l
I. In March. 1897. the wife OF
w, G. Handy. Father OF ths
Blues" was taken TO Knlcker,
booker Hospital In New Yorh
city. suffering from a csrebra
hemorrhage, Her admission wal
delayed. however while the fol
lowing phone conversation tool
place between q hospital business
office representative and Mrs
HAndy's physician, Or. Farrow r
Allen
Doctor. YOU did not tell ~
that the patient was eolored."
Color has nothing Whatsoever
to DO with t. I gave the diagncsll
and symptoms over the telephone
and that was all that was neceS
aary,
I'VE do not accept colored pa
tients In our private wards, ant
since yuu did not tell me that Sh,
was enlorcd. you miSrcPrcsente'
that case"
Il 10 not think you are capabl'
Of thinking and I hope YOU woul'
not put person at the point o
death out into the street"
After Mrs. Handy had been lief
alone In the ambulance for nearly
an hour. the hospital finally &C
copied her. She died short tint
later. tSnurcc; Amsterdam News
March 10, 1877
8 On April -, i9tT. the Ciarl
College track team was travelling
TO Nashville for u meet, AZ Tel
ham, Tennessee, one % the tw'
cars in which they were riding
was struck by a truck and com
pletely demolished Two students
were seriously injured
An ambulance took the pair /,
Manchester, Tennessee about 4
miles away, who're they were de
MED admission 10 tho city hos
pital on the ground that the hos
plal was full They were carrie,
back through Pelham to the hos
pital at the University OF tn
South, u distance Of 30 miles
Here. because the hospital wal
run the Negro wards wer'