File #227: "Interview 2 with Patricia Brown (Flower Mission Hospital)"

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Interview 2 with Patricia Brown (Flower Mission Hospital)

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Patricia Brown describes how St. John's Hospital in Anderson offered medical treatment to both African American and white patients, especially those in poverty who could not afford treatment elsewhere. This mirrored the integrated treatment at Flower Mission Hospital.

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Patricia Brown: At St. John’s Hospital for blacks. They didn’t say for blacks. They said for anybody. They opened it up for anybody because see, during that time, not only were people being segregated from St. Mary’s Hospital and Methodist Hospital. There were people that were too poor to go there, so St. John’s Hospital was a place that they could come and be treated.