Nurse LaFrances Cockrell is named the associate director of nursing at Barnes Hospital, overseeing obstetrics and gynecology, nurseries and the otolaryngology divisions, making her the first Black nurse at Barnes to hold administrative responsibilities. Image: LaFrances Cockrell, right, pictured in the Barnes Hospital Bulletin, December 1965
Barnes Hospital head nurse Dorinda Harmon establishes a prenatal course, the first of its kind for expectant parents at the hospital. Image: Dorinda Harmon
The Barnes Hospital Board of Trustees officially integrates the hospital. Its resolution explains: “RESOLVED, it is the policy of Barnes Hospital to operate without racial discrimination. This policy applies to persons served by Barnes, to its staff, and to membership on its governing board. Operating without discrimination means that: (1) No person is excluded from […]
Charles Carroll, an Emergency Room orderly at Jewish Hospital, develops skills far beyond his job description. Generations of medical students and trainees learn from him. “As the years went by, my colleagues and I came to rely on Mr. Carroll. He could read X-rays way beyond our skills. It became a bellwether of evaluation for […]
On one Christmas Eve, a group of medical students, fed up with segregation at Barnes Hospital, move beds around so that one ward “was like piano keys: Black, white, Black, white,” recalled Gerald Medoff, MD.
Jane Ervin becomes the first Black nurse at Children’s Hospital, working there for five years. Her husband, John B. Ervin, is the first Black dean on the Danforth Campus at Washington University.
Carl A. Moyer, MD, head of Washington University Surgery, gives faculty status or Barnes Hospital admitting privileges to Black Homer G. Phillips surgeons Frank Richards, MD, William Sinkler, MD, and others. “Dr. Moyer was a terrific guy, very interested in Homer Phillips. The only way I got into the St. Louis Surgical Society was that […]
Renard Hospital, the psychiatric hospital, integrates after white psychiatrists Samuel Guze, MD, and George Winokur, MD, quietly begin admitting Black patients. Samuel B. Guze oral history audio recording available via Bernard Becker Medical Library Archives » Images: Samuel Guze, MD | George Winokur, MD
Black pediatrician Homer E. Nash Jr., MD, joins the Children’s Hospital medical staff, after earning his medical degree at Meharry Medical College and performing residency training at Homer G. Phillips Hospital. He dedicates his 46-year career to providing care to children in North St. Louis, many of them poor and underserved. He wins Children’s Hospital’s […]