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Detroit was once home to 18 Black-led hospitals – here’s how to understand their rise and fall

  • Written by Rashid Faisal, Lecturer, College of Education, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Detroit was once home to 18 Black-led hospitals – here’s how to understand their rise and fallA view of Detroit in 1929. The city's rapid population growth led to increased health care needs. Library of Congress

Few institutions better illustrate the effects of the Great Migration on Black life in Detroit than Dunbar Memorial Hospital.

Founded in 1918, Dunbar was both a medical institution and a radical expression of racial uplift and Black...

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