The site of the former Richmond Community Hospital, which was established to exclusively admit Black patients during a time when Jim Crow laws barred them from accessing the same health care facilities as white patients. A development plan presented by Virginia Union University officials incorporates part of the building into new construction.
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Most Black hospitals in the South closed long ago, yet their impact endures
In the center of this historically Black city, once deemed “the jewel of the Delta” by President Theodore Roosevelt, dreams to revitalize an abandoned hospital building have all but dried up.
