Barnes Hospital officials and the Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department of the City of St. Louis dedicate tennis courts in memory of Richard Hudlin, a nationally prominent Black tennis coach and longtime teacher at Sumner High School who successfully sued St. Louis’s Muny Tennis Association to end segregation of the city’s tennis courts in 1945. […]
The City of St. Louis announces the closing of Homer G. Phillips Hospital, while the other public hospital — the largely white City Hospital #1 — remains open. This decision sparks protests in the Ville neighborhood, where Homer G. Phillips is located.
The U.S. Supreme Court decides Shelley v. Kraemer, which originated in St. Louis. The court rules that enforcing racially restrictive covenants is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital for the Colored, a public hospital for Black patients, opens in the Ville neighborhood of St. Louis. It has more training slots for Black interns and residents than any other hospital nationwide. It is named for Homer G. Phillips, a Black attorney who fought for the new hospital; he was murdered […]
St. Mary’s Infirmary in St. Louis is dedicated as a Catholic hospital for Black patients. It gives admitting privileges to Black physicians and employs Black nurses. Image: St. Mary’s Infirmary, circa 1955
St. Louis passes an $87 million bond issue, with $1 million earmarked for a hospital that would care for Black patients. A dispute soon rages over whether the hospital should be free-standing or an adjunct to the white City Hospital #1. Black advocates, including attorney Homer G. Phillips, press hard for a separate Black hospital […]
The City Hospital #2 for Black patients is so congested that patients are often put in beds in hallways. Some patients are shifted to People’s Hospital, the private Black hospital, and the city is charged a daily rate for their care.
Black patients are transferred from overcrowded, segregated wards at City Hospital #1 to the newly opened Black public hospital, City Hospital #2, at Garrison and Lawton.
Provident Hospital, later People’s Hospital, is founded as a 75-bed private Black hospital in St. Louis.
The first city hospital, St. Louis City Hospital, opens as a segregated institution, treating Black patients only in inferior parts of the hospital. It becomes known as City Hospital #1.