29 Southern Hospitals Challenged in Second Complaint Filed Under Title 6 of New Civil Rights Act

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March 4, 1965

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE «+ NEW YORK, N. Y. 10019 © JUdson 6-8397 

DR. ALLAN KNIGHT CHALMERS JACK GREENBERG CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 
President Director-Counsel Associate Counsel Ney 

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Thursday, 
March 4, 1965 

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29 SOUTHERN ‘HOSPITALS, CHALLENG ED 
IN SECOND ‘COMPLAINT@;;FLEED UNDER 
TITLE 6 OF pEEW ClVI J RIGHTS ACT 

NAACP & NAACP LEGAL DEFENS £ FUND MOVE JOINTLY 

WASHINGTON---The Department of Health, Education and Welfare today 

received its second group of complaints--this time against 29 

southern hospitals, under Section VI of the Civil Rights /ct. 

This second group, like the first (February 15th), was filed 

jointly by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, two separate, 

but closely associated organizations. 

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

J. Francis Pohlhaus, counsel of the NAACP's Washington Bureau, again 

filed the complaints. 

The attorneys asked to be informed of the results of investi- 

gations "as well as the opportunity to participate in hearings and 

other proceedings held to effect full compliance." 

The 29 hospitals cited all receive federal funds for public 

s assistance or hospital construction programs, all administered by HEW. 

Under Title VI, HEN is expected to take affirmative measures to 
¢end racial discrimination in southern hospitals. 

A summary of discriminatory practices accompanied the complaints: 

* At the Morton F, Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Fla., the 
Negro ward has been placed in the basement, which has been de- 

clared unsafe. 
* The St. Joseph's Hospital in Augusta, Ga., will not accept 

Negro maternity patients and children, 
Negroes are denied admission, rather than allowed to share a 
ward, if one white person is in it, at the University of 
Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville, Va. 
Negro patients are allowed one visiting hour a day, compared 
with three visiting hours for white patients, at Medical 
College Hospital in Charleston, S.C. 
Negro charity patients have no bathroom on their jim crow 
floor of Macon City Hospital in Macon, Ga., while white 
charity patients have four bathrooms in their building. 

Negro female non- charity [ANS must use a bathroom set 
aside for Ne wen: *< <s¢ 

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North Carolina Bae inthe current group of complaints with 
nine; Florida has? six; and Georgia has five. Arkansas, which has two 
this time, had six’complaints :previously. 

All told, 41 complaints have been filed by the NAACP and the 
NAACP Legal Defense Fund within the past three weeks.

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