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33: 322: 407:, especially in medicine. In 1920, early in his tenure at Harlem Hospital, he played a key role in fighting the precedent in New York whereby African-American doctors and nurses were barred from serving in municipal hospitals. He actively opposed segregated hospitals, including a successful effort in 1930 to stop the construction of a new such facility proposed by the 484:. Edwards, like Wright, graduated at the top of his class at Harvard Medical School and serves as the first African-American surgeon at the fictionalized Knickerbocker Hospital in Manhattan. Whereas the Harlem Hospital consisted a previously all-white surgical staff serving primarily African-American patients, the hospital in 381:. At Harvard he insisted on equal treatment when a professor prevented him from delivering white patients' babies. He joined the NAACP after medical school and remained involved with the organization for the rest of his life, eventually serving as chairman of its national board of directors from 1933 until his death in 1952. 337:
and established ties to the Harlem Hospital, where he was the first African-American on the surgical staff. Dr. Wright's implementations at Harlem Hospital were incredibly significant. He addressed the institution's issues of professionalism and quality of standards, and made the appropriate changes.
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in 1915, finishing fourth in his class. Wright's admission to Harvard Medical School must be recognized as no easy feat. Despite being a very educated individual, Wright was deemed unfit by Channing Frothingham, MD––one of the medical school's interviewers––due to his attendance of an undergraduate
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is an all-white surgical staff serving primarily white patients. While Edwards, active two decades prior to Wright, was not involved in broad-scale civil rights activism, the racial injustice he and others contended with is a major theme of the show.
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Wright's additions gained the attention of the nation, and his revisions were eventually implemented into many hospitals nationwide. In 1929 he was also appointed to serve as the first African-American police surgeon with the
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institution that permitted blacks. However, after subjecting Wright to numerous tests, Frothingham ultimately ruled that he had "adequate chemistry for admission to this school." He completed his postgraduate work at
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and was the first African-American to own an automobile in the city, had a strong influence on Louis both as a physician and through the racism Louis watched him endure.
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from 1939 to 1942. Though he returned to medicine thereafter and was appointed chief of surgery in 1943, he never fully recovered and died in 1952 at the age of 61.
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minister. Ceah died shortly after Louis's birth and his mother, a sewing teacher named Lula Tompkins, remarried in 1899. Also a physician, Louis's step-father,
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Throughout his career Wright published research extensively and his research proved influential in a number of areas including antibiotic treatment,
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on the surgical staff of a non-segregated hospital in New York City. He was influential for his medical research as well as his efforts pushing for
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Louis T. Wright and colleagues at patient bedside, Harlem Hospital, New York, N.Y. From left to right: Dr. Lyndon M. Hill, Dr. Louis T. Wright,
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Louis Tompkins Wright papers, 1879, 1898, 1909-1997. H MS c56. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
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Upon returning to the United States in 1919, he moved to New York amid racial tensions in Georgia to set up a private practice in
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for "his contribution to the healing of mankind and for his courageous position in the face of bitter attack."
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efforts, beginning in college when he missed three weeks of school to join picket lines protesting
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with the identical methods that deal with the health of the remainder of the population.
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Wright had chronic health problems following his war service and was hospitalized for
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Shortly after completing medical school and moving back to Georgia, Wright joined the
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did not go unnoticed. For the better part of a decade, he wrote multiple columns in
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and Barbara Wright Pierce, both of whom also became physicians and researchers.
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during World War I, stationed in France. While there he introduced intradermal
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Wright is the inspiration for the character Algernon Edwards, played by actor
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The Harlem Hospital library was renamed in his honor just before he died.
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center, and earned a reputation as an expert on head injuries. He was a
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Civil Rights: An A-to-Z Reference of the Movement That Changed America
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African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers
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Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954
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Gates Jr. Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, eds. (2009).
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Louis T. Wright, Address at the 1938 National Health Conference
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a film controversial for its sympathetic portrayal of the
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American surgeon and civil rights activist (1891-1952)
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William E. Artis
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Mary White Ovington
Channing Heggie Tobias
LaGrange, Georgia
New York City
New York
Atlanta University
BS
Harvard University
MD
Spingarn Medal
Purple Heart
FACS
civil rights
Harlem Hospital
African-American
racial equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
LaGrange, Georgia
valedictorian
Methodist
William Fletcher Penn
Yale School of Medicine
Atlanta
Clark Atlanta University
Harvard Medical School
Howard University
Freedmen's Hospital

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