- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Summary
- The collection consists of 12 audio recordings documenting the efforts to keep Sydenham Hospital open.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Sydenham Hospital was a healthcare facility in Harlem which operated between 1892 and 1980. It was the first hospital to have a full desegregated interracial policy with six African American Trustees and twenty African Americans on staff. It was New York City's first full-service hospital to hire African-American doctors, and later became known for hiring African American doctors and nurses when other nearby hospitals would not. In mid-1979, New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch announced the planned closures of four city hospitals, including Sydenham. While the Koch Administration argued that Sydenham was outdated and wasted money during a period of fiscal crisis, African American leaders in Harlem viewed the hospital's closing as a loss of both an historic Black institution and accessible health services to the community. After more than a year of lawsuits, lobbying efforts and protests by municipal hospital unions and Harlem community activists, Sydenham was closed in late 1980 and eventually turned into a senior residence in the mid-1980s.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Sydenham Hospital Protest Collection.
- OCLC
- 1164699590
- Title
Sydenham Hospital protest audio collection.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Sydenham Hospital Protest Collection.
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- Added Author
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.