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 before it opened. In the coming years, both Black and white physicians treat patients there.
Image: Resident roster for Homer G. Phillips Hospital, 1937