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Neglected History Sought
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Description
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Article announces that documentary filmmaker Kevin Wilmott and historians Deborah Dandridge and Tanya Hart are beginning work on a film focusing upon healthcare provided to African Americans living in Kansas City during the Jim Crow era. Wilmott is interviewed and provides a brief history of the city's General Hospitals No. 1 and No. 2. Former employees and patients of the city's segregated hospital are interviewed and describe their unequal treatment and conditions of the facility.
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Date
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2013-03-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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He Gave to the Community
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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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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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Health Care Institutions
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Description
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Portion of chapter, "School, Church, and Health", describes the development of health care institutions for African Americans. Old City Hospital or General Hospital #2 was "a point of pride for many African Americans". When a fire gutted it in 1927, a new hospital was constructed just west of General Hospital #1 and opened on March 2, 1930. Also discussed are Niles Home for Children, Florence Crittenton Home, and Big Sister Home for Negro Girls as well as general health considerations for Kansas City's African Americans.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Book Section
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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
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Title
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Kansas City General Hospital No. 2
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Description
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Article about black people being denied hospitalization because of their race.
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Date
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1997
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Object Type
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Magazine 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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General Hospital No. 2
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of General Hospital Number 2.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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African American Care Givers
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Description
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Interior view, appears to be a hospital room. Includes two unidentified, adult African American care givers tending to an African American child in a crib. Location probably General Hospital No.2, the city hospital located near downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Nutrition/Food Services in Hospital
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Description
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Interior view, believed to be the kitchen located in General Hospital No. 2. Includes two unidentified hospital kitchen employees. Photograph found in Municipal Mirror, November, 1946, p. 6, MVSC 092 M96 and captioned: "The immaculately clean kitchen."
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Date
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1946
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Object Type
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Photograph
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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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Nutrition/Food Service in Hospital
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Description
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Interior view of what is identified as the new kitchen in General Hospital No.2. Includes six unidentified kitchen personnel. This photograph appeared printed in the City Manager's annual report for 1941, MVSC Q 092.56 K16, 1940-48, p.44 and was captioned as: "A new kitchen in General Hospital, No.2."
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Date
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1941
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wheatley-Provident Hospital
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Description
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Photocopy of paper noted as a special study by Miss Margaret Klein, Council of Social Agencies, Kansas City, Missouri. Includes the history of Wheatley-Provident Hospital as well as a chapter titled "Local Hospital Facilities for Negroes" which includes General Hospital No. 2, University of Kansas Hospital, St. Margaret's Hospital and Wheatley. Paper also includes cost analysis, statistical data, and factors influencing the growth and development of the hospital. Original can be found in the Ramos Collection--Pamphlet Collection--Number 225--Box 5.
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Date
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1936-06
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Object Type
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Report
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Title
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New Building Which Houses General Hospital Ambulance Division
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Description
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File containing an article with photo and caption about "the new hospital auxiliary building recently completed west of general hospital No. 2" (pictured) at about 22nd and Gillham Roads.
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Date
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1935-09-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Health and Politics
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[R]eport on the recommendations of the 'Health and Hospital Survey' of 1930 for Kansas City, with various information about health care deficiencies and statistics, including "a wing for Negroes" left uncompleted "at the tuberculosis hospital at Leeds" and a death rate of Kansas City being higher (12.25) than New York City (10.23).
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Date
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1935-01-18
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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First issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes a statement on the newspaper's objective, maintaining that the newspaper is not against any certain political party or vice, but that it is simply for "good government." Featured articles include: “Council Passes Cab Ordinance” (pp. 2 & 4) discussing councilman Frank H. Backstrom’s reaction to the ordinance and detailing other ordinances appropriating bond funds.; "Adult Education--A Fine Work" (pp. 2 & 6) concerning "the program of adult education going forward under the FERA, with the hearty co-operation of the city's Board of Education" and supervised by Roy Gallemore. It describes courses offered at Lincoln High School and its "sixty-three colored teachers employed, a goodly number as compared with the hundred and sixteen white teachers."; “Trivia” (pp. 2 & 6) and "Borderline Businesses Pay Most Sugar" (pp. 3 & 8) on the bombing of the Harlem Nightclub as an example of the vulnerability of semi-legitimate ("borderline") nightclubs and other businesses in Kansas City to its strong-arm tactics of organized crime through the police department. A photo of the Harlem Nightclub bombing is included.; "What, Precisely, Is a Machine?" (pp. 3 & 5) on the definition of political machines and the Pendergast machine in Kansas City fitting this definition through unofficial financing, voting fraud, etc.; "A New Administration for the County" (pp. 3-5) detailing the new administrative officials, new budget laws, and efforts to reduce the city deficit. A picture of J. W. Hostetter, Eugene I. Purcell, and Battle McCardle is included.; “NYM” (p. 4) on the National Youth Movement began in Kansas City in May 1932 with a portrait of Joseph C. Fennelly.; "May We Present Mrs. Charles N. Seidlitz" (p. 5) on Alice Richards Seidlitz "one of the founders of the Junior League of Kansas City," wife of Charles Seidlitz ("president of the Seidlitz Paint and Varnish Company"), and daughter of George Richards ("son of the founder of Richards and Conover Hardware Company"). A photo of Alice is included.; "Be Proud, Citizens!" (pp. 5 & 8) on the ironic description of Kansas City by Judge Brown Harris "as 'probably the most law-abiding city in the United States.'" Irony due to the judge's association with the Pendergast machine and "federal indictments" in relation to the Union Station massacre of Eugene Reppert ("former director of police"), Thomas Higgins ("chief of detectives"), George Rayen ("of the police motor theft bureau"), Tom Bash (sheriff), etc.; Book review (p. 7) of "Heaven's My Destination" by Thornton Wilder (author of "Our Town" and "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"), describing a scene in the book with the main character (a devoutly religious man) unknowingly eating at one of Kansas City's "bawdy houses" and experiencing other misadventures.; Also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on sports, fashion, finance, cooking, music, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-01-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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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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