South Needs More Negro Physicians, Dentists; KKK Protests Negroes Working at Colored War Veterans' Hospital, July 5, 1923

The Department of the Interior conducting a survey through Howard University has found that there are more colored physicians and dentists practicing in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland and Chicago, than in all the 16 southern states combined, where fully 8 million colored people live.

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A thousand Ku Klux, white masked and robed, marched the streets of Tuskegee the night of July 2nd in silent protest to placing a Negro personnel at the Colored War Veterans’ Hospital there. They came from Montgomery and many Alabama cities. Which is another evidence of the unwisdom of building the hospital there and a revelation of the spirit and purpose of the Ku Klux Klan concerning the Negro. The country is watching while Alabama performs.

From the editorial page of The Star of Zion, the official organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, published in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, July 5, 1923, W.J. Walls, editor.