A Hospital for All: Accessing Healthcare in Mill Creek Valley

City Hospital #2 was built in 1919 in response to segregation and the lack of healthcare available to African Americans in the St. Louis area. It was one of only three hospitals that provided care to colored citizens at the time. In 1937, it was then renamed to The Homer G. Phillips Hospital and was one of the largest, exclusively black institutions in the United States until it desegregated in 1954.