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Title
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Health Center Head Is Named
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Description
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Dr. Samuel Rodgers appointed director of the new neighborhood health center to be opened soon [in 1967] at Wayne Miner court. Dr. Rodgers was also "a partner in group practice at the Doctors clinic" at 2701 East 31st Street as well as a staff member at Menorah, Research, and St. Mary's Hospitals. His residence was at 3405 Quincy Avenue.
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Date
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1967-10-13
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Center to Adopt Name of Its First, Only Director
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Description
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Article about Dr. Samuel Rodgers, the new namesake in 1988 of the Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center, formerly called the Wayne Miner Health Center. Dr. Rodgers was the first and only director of the health center since its inception in 1967. Brief histories of both his career and the center are given, including its move in 1972 to 825 Euclid Avenue.
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Date
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1988-05-31
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Local Heroes: Ron McMillan
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Description
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Photo and biographical description of Ron McMillan, a 47-year-old black anti-crime activist in Kansas City, especially working with drug addicts. Coming to Kansas City in 1988 from New York City and forming "People United to Save Addicted Babies" and working "for the Kansas City Free Health Clinic," and at "the Urban Peace and Justice Summit, which brought gang members from around the country together peacefully," etc.
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Date
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1995-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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An Interview With Samuel U. Rodgers
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Description
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Samuel U. Rodgers was chosen for the project as a representative of the African American community and as a physician concerned with health care for the poor in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born in Alabama, son of a physician, and died in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 19, 1999. Dr. Rodgers started the Wayne Miner Health Clinic which was later named the Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center in his honor. According to his obituary "he came to Kansas City to intern at General Hospital Number Two--the black facility in what was then a segregated health-care system. He was one of the first African American doctors to acquire a speciality [obstetrics], and helped begin Kansas City's first all-black group medical practice in 1950" (The Kansas City Star, December 21, 1999, A1:6,). Interviewer: Genevieve Robinson; recorded August 2 and August 8, 1988.
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Date
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1988-08-02
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Object Type
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Sound Recording
