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AFRICAN-AMERICAN
PHYSICIAN TRAILBLAZERS
Honoring Our Past
•1898- Graduated from Howard
Medical School
•1898- Moved to Kansas City
•General Surgery
•Politician
•1903 Flood – Cared for victims
•Co- founded Douglass Hospital
•2nd Superintendent of General
Hospital No. 2
Dr. Thomas C. Unthank 1866-1932
•Clinical Surgery
•1895-Meharry Medical School
•Lieutenant U.S. Volunteer
Infantry 1898
•1903 – Came to Kansas City
•The Perry Sanitarium 1910
•City’s 1st private Negro
hospital
•Became Wheatley-
Provident Hospital in 1916
•Autobiography “Forty Cords of
Wood”
Dr. J. Edward Perry 1870 – 1962
Clinical Surgery
Brother was physician also,
Dr. J. R. Thompson
Helped discover cures for a
plague of spinal meningitis in
1912 and a Spanish influenza
epidemic in 1918.
Headed organization of
Douglass Hospital with
attorney, I. F. Bradley, Sr.
Dr. S. H. Thompson 1870-1950
General Surgery
Howard University Medical School 1905
1st Black Superintendent of General Hospital No. 2 in
1914
1927 appointed assistant of Hygiene & Communicable
Diseases for the city
Newspaper editor
Kansas City American
Weekly newspaper 1928-1943
President insurance company
Midwest Life Insurance Company
President of the National Colored Democratic
Association
Dr. William J. Thompkins 1884-1944
FIRST STAFF OF KANSAS CITY GENERAL
HOSPITAL NO. 2
• First row. (I. to r.) Thomas A. Jones, T. C. Chapman, J. Edgar Dibble and Lon Tillman. Second row, I. to r. C. A. Murray Kane, E. J. McCampbell and A. Franklin Radford.
INTERNS MAY 1931
• First row, I. to r. Nathaniel Mathagie, Connor, Chandler, H. W. Kennedy, Theodore Borders, Fleming. Second row, I. to r. W. McKinley Thomas, Barnes, Bass, James Riley, Theodore Dulany, James Jefferies.
Dr. Lewis Bass
Pediatrician
Graduate of Sumner High School
Active in the community
Dr. Wallace Dooley
Orthopedics
Graduate of Sumner High School
Meharry Medical School
One of first African-Americans to complete
residency in Orthopedic Surgery
Taught at Meharry for 27 years
Dr. William Dyer 1890’s-1940’s
Family Medicine
Meharry Medical School
Lieutenant in medical corps of U.S. Army 1917-
1919
Santa Fe Railroad
Dr. William Blount 1900’s – 1950’s
Physician & Surgeon
1932 became 1st African-American state
representative from Wyandotte County
Dr. William A. Love 1920’s – 1960’s
Physician & Pharmacist
Original board member of Douglas State Bank
1920’s
Physician & Surgeon
Among 1st African-American pilot’s
license 1928
Meharry Medical College
1920 Davis Maternity Sanitarium
for Unwed Mothers
1st African-American physician appointed assist. Health
director in KCK 1926-32
President NMA 1953
Produced & acted in his own movie “The Lure of a
Woman” 1921
North America Aviation Inc. in Fairfax
Dr. A. Porter Davis 1890-1976
OB/GYN
Meharry Medical School 1923
Intern at General Hospital No. 2
“Delivered more babies in Wyandotte
county than any other physician”
Practiced >60 years
Dr. Clyde W. Alexander 1898-
Pediatrician
Graduated South Carolina State
University with triple major
Meharry Medical School
13th minority physician in the
country to hold board certification
Medical Director of Samuel U.
Rodgers Health Center
Part of many other organizations
Dr. Stark Williams
•OB/Gyn
•1949 The Doctors Clinic
•1962 Historical Summary of
Kansas City General Hospital
No. 2 in NMA Journal
•1968 Founded Wayne Minor
Community Health Center (CHC)
•4th CHC in nation
•1st CHC in state of Missouri
Samuel U. Rodgers 1917-1999
THE DOCTORS CLINIC, KANSAS CITY,
MISSOURI
1969- Model Cities Health Corporation (MCHC) opens. E. Frank Ellis is director.
1980- Community Mental Health Center added
1981- Accredited by (then) Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals
1984 -A HMO established and Swope Parkway Health Foundation established.
1986- Clinic renamed Swope Parkway Health Center.
1998- Merger with Douglas Community Health Center in Kansas City, Kansas
2002- The Northwest Community Health Center opens.
OB/GYN
Howard University Medical School
Internship & Residency at
General Hospital No. 2
Board of Directors for National
Kidney Foundation 1980
Aircraft Owners Pilot Assoc.,
Flying Physicians Assoc., Missouri
Pilots Assoc., Negro Airmen
Assoc., Tuskegee Airmen Inc.
Dr. James Johnson
CARL M. PETERSON, M.D., (1914-2007)
Dr. Peterson was the first black surgeon in
Kansas City to be certified in his specialty by
the American Board of Surgeons
1955- Became first black on staff of White
Kansas City Missouri Hospital (St. Mary’s)
1972- Became first black president of the
Jackson County Medical Society.
THE KANSAS CITY MEDICAL SOCIETY
1962
1st Row: C. M. Peterson, J. S. Johnson, L M. Tillman, A. J. Randolph, S. J.
Williams, John Wells, L. N. Bass, Albert Crocker, C. C. Reynolds.
2nd Row: B. P. McDonald, C. Franklin, A. Renaud, L. Haugh, G. Clark, A.
Brady, C. W. Alexander, L. Holbert, Wm. Bryan, J. Ramos, S. U. Rodgers.
3rd Row: J. White, L. W. Turner, Philip Smith, E. F. Ellis, H. Jones, Geo. Taft,
A. P. Talliferro, H. Williams, C. Gilmore, Thomas Clark, Leslie Becker.