Walls, John H.

Date:
1973-08-24
Length:
390 minutes
Interviewer:
 
Transcription available:
no
Series:
African American Community Interviews
Series ID:
9999_001
Interview Number(s):
1984__81
1984__82
1984__83
1984__84
1984__85
Summary:
Dr. John Walls gives a history of the Red Cross Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The hospital was organized in the early 1900s to serve Louisville's Black community. The Black doctors weren't able to practice in white hospitals. He talks about the constant fundraising initiatives and the trouble Black doctors had being accepted into the white medical society and how this membership was a prerequisite for working in the white hospitals.
Topic(s):
Red Cross Hospital (Louisville, Ky.), African American physicians, African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville, Doctors