Institutions-Hospital

Black Panther Party’s Free Medical Clinics (1969-1975)
In 1966 Huey Newton and Bobby Seale created the Black Panther Party (BPP) to fight police oppression of blacks in...
July 10th, 2020

Freedmen’s Hospital/Howard University Hospital (1862– )
The Freedmen’s Hospital was founded in 1862 in Washington, D.C. It was the first hospital of its kind to aid in...
March 25th, 2018

The Houston Negro Hospital-Riverside General Hospital (1926- )
Houston Negro Hospital, 2010 “Image Ownership: Ed Uthman” The Houston Negro Hospital was created in 1926 when the earlier black...
April 15th, 2014

Contraband Hospital, 1862-1863: Health Care For the First Freedpeople
In the article below Jill L. Newmark, exhibition specialist in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of...
March 28th, 2012

Georgia Infirmary (1832- )
The Georgia Infirmary was the first hospital for African Americans built in the United States. Chartered on December 24, 1832...
December 23rd, 2010

Homer G. Phillips Hospital (1937-1979)
Homer G. Phillips Hospital, one of the country’s most prestigious medical institutions, was designed by architect Albert Osburg. The hospital...
October 25th, 2008