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Medical Facilities Under Jim Crow Laws

By : Ashley David Nelson

Walter Whites Father

Jim Crow Laws Today

Walter Whites father got hit by a car and was rushed to Grady Hospital, thinking he was a Caucasian". The doctor in the hospital worked reversely to save his life. Then they learned that he was black because a darker skinned relative came to visit. The doctors rushed him to the Negro Annex across the street that was dirty, with rundown buildings and had huge cockroaches and aggressive rats.

Our opinion is that if the Jim Crow laws were still around there would be a majority of african americans either dying or already dead. Knowing the violence rate today in the United States. If there were injured african americans they would be dying or dead because they would not have the medical attention they needed.

Medical Violations

Black Hospital

African Americans went through tunnels to go to white hospitals to receive the care they needed or get supplies to care for their black parents.

If the African American's skin color was light enough they would pass as a white person without the doctors knowing.

Black Nurses

Black doctors once posed as janitors at Kansas City's whites only hospital. And black nurses sometimes used underground tunnels to discreetly transport their sickest patients to the better equipped white hospital next door.

Black Nurses

Laws In Different States

Consequences On Violating A Social Norm

GEORGIA - Blacks and whites are to have different mental hospitals, a white doctor will see all his white patients first then see all his black black patients, the board of control shall see that proper and distant apartments are arranged for said patients so that in no case shall Blacks and Whites be together

MISSISSIPPI - There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the states for the treatment of white and colored patients to have separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors

ALABAMA - No person or cooperation shall require any white female nurse to nurse a hospital where a negro men are placed

KENTUCKY - An institution for the education of colored deaf mutes was to be established but segregation still allowed, separate but equal accommodation for whites and african americans provided in nursing homes

Violating the racial etiquette under the Jim Crow laws placed ones own life, together with the lives of his or her entire family, at risk. This led to lynching and direct murder of the persons who traveled these set borders.

Segregated Hospitals

Lynching

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