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Tue, 01.01.1963

Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital is Decided

*On this date in 1963, Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital was decided.  This federal case reached the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that “separate but equal” racial segregation in publicly funded hospitals violated equal protection under the United States Constitution.  George Simkins, Jr. was a dentist and NAACP leader in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of his African American patients developed an abscessed tooth, and […]

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we were raised on the lower eastside of detroit, close to harlem, new york, around the block from watts, next to the Mississippi delta in north america. FIRST WORLD (for Cheikh Anta Diop) by Haki R. Madhubuti
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