Interview: Russell F. Minton, February 18, 1987

Interview: Russell F. Minton, February 18, 1987

Hospitals--Administration

African Americans--Segregation

Mercy-Douglass Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Medical centers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

African American physicians

Racism

Race discrimination.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Health and hygiene.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

Discrimination in employment.

Philadelphia General Hospital

Dr. Russell F. Minton (1900-1997), born around 1900, was an African-American physician from 1929 to 1975. Minton graduated medical school in 1929 and became a radiologist at Mercy Hospital in 1940. Minton held many positions during his career such as the Medical Director of the merged Mercy-Douglass Hospital from 1949 to 1953. He was also the first African American physician to be appointed as a medical officer of the Civil Service Commission’s Philadelphia regional office. He worked in this position until he retired in 1975.

1987-02-18

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Charles Hardy

Russell F. Minton

Tuberculosis

Tuskegee Institute.

African American judges

Medical centers--Finance

African American leadership