Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and Its Black Physicians

When the Tuskegee Veteran''s Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran''s Bureau believed that black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. Except for nurses'' aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. Recruiting and training black medical professionals was difficult given the obstacles facing blacks in obtaining education in medic...