To Bear Fruit For Our Race: A History of African-American Physicians in Houston | from the Center for Public History at the University of Houston

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Photo of Houston Negro Hospital dedication with quotation: There is so much to be done in a city that will have such a great medical center as Houston plans. Here at the Houston Negro Hospital our beginning is humble, but through hard work will bear fruit for our race. - Dr. John Edward Perry, March 1947 (Courtesy of Special Collections, MD Anderson Library, University of Houston)

June 19, 1926 dedication of Houston Negro Hospital, Dr. Benjamin Jesse Covington.
(Courtesy of Special Collections, MD Anderson Library, University of Houston)

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