Today's featured photo on Wikipedia is of jazz singer, Bessie Smith.
"On September 26, 1937, Smith was critically injured in a road traffic accident on U.S. Route 61. She was taken to the G. T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where her right arm was amputated, but died that morning without regaining consciousness. A since-discredited story later emerged that she had died because a whites-only hospital in Clarksdale had refused to admit her. The circumstances surrounding her death formed the basis for Edward Albee's 1959 one-act play The Death of Bessie Smith."
Shocking racism back then, yeah?
Here's a photo of the Whitey taxpayer funded Aboriginals Only hospital in Fitzroy, Melbourne, today:
"On September 26, 1937, Smith was critically injured in a road traffic accident on U.S. Route 61. She was taken to the G. T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where her right arm was amputated, but died that morning without regaining consciousness. A since-discredited story later emerged that she had died because a whites-only hospital in Clarksdale had refused to admit her. The circumstances surrounding her death formed the basis for Edward Albee's 1959 one-act play The Death of Bessie Smith."
Shocking racism back then, yeah?
Here's a photo of the Whitey taxpayer funded Aboriginals Only hospital in Fitzroy, Melbourne, today:
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