Record Number Complaints Against Southern Hospitals is Filed with HEW Department

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April 14, 1965

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Record Number (36 in 6 States) Complaints Against Southern Hospitals is Filed with HEW

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Record Number Complaints Against Southern Hospitals is Filed with HEW Department, 1965. 5ca487e0-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/658667d1-da96-41ce-a5c1-d2aadb87bdb1/record-number-complaints-against-southern-hospitals-is-filed-with-hew-department. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

te 
7 President 

r. Allan Knight Chalmers 
FOR RELEASE 
Wednesday 
April 14, 1965 

ae RECORD NUMBER COMPLAINTS 
AGAINST SOUTHERN HOSPITALS 
IS FILED WITH HEW DEPARTMENT 

WASHINGTON--=A»record number of complaints against "discriminatory 

practices in ¥ federally assisted hospitals in six southern states” 

has been filed with thesDepartment of Health, Education and Welfare. 

Joint announcement. was made here today by the NAACP and the 

NAACP Legal Defense andeEducational Fund, Inc., two separate but 

closely associated organizations. 

Messzs Frank Pohlhaus, counsel of the NAACP's Washington Bureau 

and Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund re~ 

quested that "appropiate action be taken io insure immediate com 

pliar ce with the nondiscrimination provisions of Title 6 of the Civil 

RighEE Act of 1964," : 
ie F 

‘The attorneys asked HEW Secretary Anthony J. Celebrezze ‘ees 

up further payments (of government monies) pending investigation of 

this complaint and compliance of Title 6. 

This complaint brings to a total 78 southern hospitals cited ea 

for discriminatory practices during the last three months. as 

Florida leads in this most recent complaint, with 17 hospitals : 

Se Bae: cited; Alabama has 11; Louisiana has four; Tenn., two 3 Georgia one 

and Virginia, one. rs ae 

A summary of discriminatory practices outlined cpecge te charBes 

such as a statement by Philip T. Sharples, president of the Board of 

the Good Samaritan Hospital, West Palm Beach, Florida, Rage 2 

Negroes are not admitted to Good Samaritan because "costs would 

go up and income would come down," Mr, Sharples said, os 

If the white wards of Jackson-Madison County Genera 

Negro:first flootiar Negro patients are placed in the corcidors.” 

Other complaint extended over a wide range of abuses, ex- 

clusions and preferential treatment, 
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Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487

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