Frank O. Richards papers, 1937-2003. 1937-2003.

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Frank O. Richards papers, 1937-2003. 1937-2003.

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The collection contains statistical and narrative pertaining primarily to Homer G. Phillips Hospital, the St. Louis municipal hospital founded and operated for African Americans in 1937, but also to two other institutions, City Hospital No. 2 and the Peoples' Hospital, that treated black patients during decades of official racial segregation. Included are files on William H. Sinkler, medical director of Homer G. Phillips Hospital from 1941 until 1960.

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Richards, Frank O., 1923-

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Surgeon, born 1923. Richards received his medical degree from Howard University School of Medicine in 1947 and completed his internship and surgical residency at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis. In 1954 Richards was appointed supervisor of surgery at Homer G. Phillips Hospital. He served on the clinical faculty of the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine and was the first African-American surgeon on the staffs of Barnes, Jewish, St. Luke's and DePaul Hospital...

Sinkler, William H., 1906-1960.

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Homer G. Phillips Hospital

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