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The Houston Negro Hospital: The Untold Legacy of Riverside General

The Houston Negro Hospital: The Untold Legacy of Riverside General

Paperback

Series: American Heritage

Medical ReferenceBlack American StudiesRegional: Southwest

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 146717162X
ISBN13: 9781467171625
Publisher: History Press
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This Great Hospital Fight - Dr. Drake

At the height of racial and political tensions in early twentieth-century Houston, two unlikely figures became allies. Dr. William M. Drake, a pioneering surgeon and Black community leader, and Joseph Cullinan, a white oil magnate and founder of the company that became Texaco, united in a desperate effort to save a hospital that symbolized hope. The Houston Negro Hospital was born from America's Black hospital movement. Dedicated on Juneteenth 1926, it embodied a bold experiment to bring dignity and health care access to a community that was systematically denied both in the Jim Crow South.

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