Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price

In that regard, the story of Mound Bayou's hospital isn't unique. But there's more to this hospital closure than the loss of inpatient beds, historians say. It's also a tale of how hundreds of Black hospitals across the U.S. fell casualty to social progress.

The federal campaign to desegregate hospitals, culminating in a 1969 court case out of Charleston, S.C., guaranteed Black patients across the South access to the same health care facilities as white patients.

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