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Title
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Personalities of Kansas City
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Description
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Vertical file containing a portrait and biographical article about Dr. William Johnson, or Dr. Bill Johnson, a physician and surgeon specializing in tuberculosis and diseases of the chest at General Hospital Number 2. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and came to Kansas City as an intern around 1927 at General Hospital Number 2 before serving as a resident physician at Wheatley-Provident Hospital, then becoming director of the Chest Clinic at General Hospital Number 2.
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Personalities of Kansas City
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Description
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Vertical file contains a portrait and biographical article about Dr. Royall Fleming, a physician and night superintendent at General Hospital Number 2 in Kansas City. He was a native of North Carolina, graduating from Howard School of Medicine in 1930 before coming to Kansas City and specializing in allergies and endocrinology.
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Date
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1941-08-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Dr. John Edward Perry
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Description
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Biography and photo of physician John E. Perry, founder of Wheatley Provident Hospital and President and Chief of Surgical Service at the Colored Division of General Hospital.
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Date
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1932-10-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dr. William James Thompkins
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Description
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Biography and photo of physician William J. Thompkins, "First Colored Superintendant of the Hospital", born in 1879 in Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Date
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1932-10-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dr. Thomas Conard Unthank
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Description
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Biography and photo of physician Thomas C. Unthank, "The 'Father' of Kansas City's Negro Hospital". In addition to the Colored Division of General Hospital, he was involved in the founding of the Douglas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, Lange and Wheatley Provident Hospitals.
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Date
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1932-10-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dr. Dennis Madison Miller
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Description
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Biography and photo of physician Dennis M. Miller, "Superintendent of Kansas City General Hospital Colored Division", born in Thomasville, Georgia September 30, 1884.
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Date
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1932-10-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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He Gave to the Community
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Description
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Obituary for Carl M. Peterson, M.D., who died December 17, 2007, at age 93. Dr. Peterson was the first black surgeon in Kansas City to be certified in his specialty by the American Board of Surgeons and the first black president of the Jackson County Medical Society.
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Date
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2007-12-23
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Kansas City General Hospital No. 2
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Description
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The article starts: "At the turn of the century, public hospitalization for Kansas City, Missouri, non-white population was very limited. There existed on Holmes Street, overlooking the Belt railroad tracks, the Kansas City Municipal Hospital, later to become known as 'Old City Hospital'. This structure built in about 1873, with some later additions, housed for 35 years the indigent sick whites, with a few beds for the non-whites (Negro and Mexican)." Mentioned are Dr.Thomas C. Unthank and Dr. J. Edward Perry. Perry opened the Perry Sanitarium in 1910, Kansas City's first private Negro hospital. The history concerning the building of General Hospital No.2 for African Americans is given with lists of doctors who were on staff. Also discussed are topics as how well other hospitals in the area integrated, integration in the Kansas City Health Department, information concerning Queen of the World Hospital which opened in the mid-1950s, the Kansas City Medical Society, Douglass Hospital, Wheatley-Provident Hospital, the Doctors Clinic, etc. Short biographical information is given at the end of the article for the following article contributors: Samuel U. Rodgers, Walter R. Peterson, James S. Johnson, Harry S. Jonas, Charles B. Wilkinson, Houshang Yaghami, John W. Armstead, and Myron H. Watkins.
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Date
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1962-09-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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William J. Thompkins: African American Physician, Politician, and Publisher
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Description
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Article tells the story of Dr. William J. Thompkins. Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1879, he moved to Kansas City to practice medicine in 1906. In 1914 he was appointed superintendent of General Hospital #2. Thompkins was very active in the Democratic party and founded the black newspaper the "Kansas City American," competitor to the Republican-leaning African American newspaper "The Call."
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Date
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2007-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas city, 1900-1960
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Description
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Dr. William J. Thompkins was named an assistant health commissioner in the city's Department of Hygiene and Communicable Diseases in 1927 during the city's Democratic administration. He had earlier in 1915 become the first African American to serve as superintendent of Old City Hospital for black patients. Other information about him is included as well as about General Hospital No. 2.
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Book
