Historic black hospital to be turned into museum

A group of black doctors hope to raise funds to convert the long-vacant Dunbar Hospital into a medical museum to commemorate contributions African-Americans have made to the medical profession.

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The hospital was opened by black physicians denied practicing privileges at white-owned hospitals in the city, in an era in the country's history when few blacks were admitted to white-owned hospitals. Closed in 1926, the red-brick mansion on Frederick Avenue, is located in the shadows of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.The Detroit Medical Society, an organization of African-American doctors in Metro Detroit, has owned the house for 80 years. Physicians who were members of the society founded Dunbar Hospital.

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