Dixie Hospital Bigotry Cracked by NAACP Legal Defense Lawyers

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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 MomLeY 
President Director-Counsel 

DIXIE HOSPITAL BIGOTRY CRACKED 
BY NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE LAWYERS 

, D.C.--The U,S, Supreme Court swept away legal founda-% 
jim crow practices in 2,000 hospitals and medical facili 
Teven southern states this week, # 

sThe victory, won by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense ange f 
saub ional Fund, is one of the most crucial and far reaching sincere 

the 54 school integration ruling. i 
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hese eleven southern states have received over a half billion’ u 
federal dollars, to underwrite their segregationist practices, since 
passage of the Hill-Burton act of 1946. #* 

lack Greenberg, Legal Defense Fund director-counsel, who led % % 
the pBatoon of lawyers, said the high court's action "will put an Me 

af end tdikeeping Negroes out of white hospitals." fe 

rgdwer, it will put an end to "segregating Negroes withi 
hosp ls and requiring them to give un their Negro doctors ae 
whit octors if they want treatment," he went on. 

* A Greenberg said the victory "will be an entering wedge 
Negro ysicians into the main stream of medical practice in e | 

epliowerhe il law or whether a long hard process of litigation, stich 
‘3 have had with schools, will be necessary," he said. & 3 hi “ye 

s, wrote to officials of both the Moses H. Cone Memorial = - 
and the Wesley Long Hospital in March of 1960. “Both are ha q 

ro, North Carolina. : 

. BS was joined when Dr. G.C, Simkins, Jr., one of 
£ 

ise As a result, Negro patients desiring admission — 
arge their Negro doctors or dentists. 

agro physicians, dentists and patients applied for posi 1S 
ad ission to the two hospital staffs and wards but were not ae ce 

Tl Negro plaintiffs included A.V, Blount, tae Walter 32 
nade Norman N. Jones, Girardeau Alexander, E,D. Noel, III, 
.- Davis, all qualified medical doctors practicing in Greensbd 

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so, Dr. Simkins, Milton H. Barnes, and W.L.T. Miller, al 

lidfed dentists, practicing in Greensboro. 

He patient- plaintiffs were Donald R. Lyons and A.J. renee 
yhas a confirmed gastric ulcer of 35 years duration. It requires) 
stant medical supers tOns cS 

a a Racially segregated meen Ae. Bee built with Hill- Burtdn,” 
money are located -in»Alabama, pele es Florida,* “Georgi Louisiana, 
Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texad! and eee 

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March 6, 1964 Dixie Hospital Bigotry Cracked =2- 

_— by NAACP Degal Defense” Lawyers 
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“= The Supreme Court expressed its opinion by refusing to review 
fappeal by the two Greensboro hospitals charged with discrimination 

Legal Defense attorneys won the case in the U.S. Fourth, Ciras 
ae aot of Appeals last November. i 

Th he hospitals involved in this case, and many others i he 
have defended their racial policies on the ground that they 

private" and not subject to the Fourteenth Amendment. ‘The ts 
pap reuit decision rejected that argument. y 3 

E ike two Greensboro hospitals received money under the Hill-Burton 
t sg forbids discrimination in general, but maintains « F eyst 
Uses 

"An exception shall be made in cases where separate ho 
ilities are provided for separate population groups, if thi 

} itable provision on the basis of need for facilities’ 
6f like quality for each group." ? 

as the provision held invalid by the Fourth Circu ourt, 
se action was left standing by the Supreme Court. 

AACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys, responsible for thi 
ition to Mr. Greenberg, include Conrad O. Pearson, Durh 
James M, Nabrit, III and Michael Meltsner, of New York City. 

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