Alabama Children's Home Hospital letters

Collection

Identifier: AC-764

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains two typescript letters written in 1954, by Florence S. Adams, Executive Director of the Community Chest in Birmingham, Alabama. The March 31 letter is addressed to Ollie Wyatt, President of the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in Birmingham. This letter

Dates

1954 March 31 and June 3

Creator

Adams, Florence S. (Person)
Wyatt, Ollie (Person)
Neely, Mabel (Person)

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Biographical / Historical

Children's Home Hospital was the only hospital that allowed African American physicians to practice medicine in Birmingham, Alabama, through almost all of the first half of the twentieth century. The hospital was founded in circa 1901 by Arthur McKinnon Brown (1867–1939).