Leon H. Washington Jr., left, publisher of the Sentinel, marches in a picket line with a sign that says “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” in a photo published Jan. 2, 1947.
Jan. 2, 1947: At its convention in Cleveland, the American College of Surgeons admits a delegation of 10 black surgeons — none of them from Los Angeles.
“The initiation of the 10 fellows of the college brought to a close one of the most effective campaigns ever waged to crack an existing color bar in medicine,” the Sentinel said.
Founded in 1913 to promote high standards in surgical care, the association had one black charter member, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, FACS, of St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, who died in 1931. Dr. Louis T. Wright, director of surgery at Harlem Hospital of New York, became the next African American member in 1934.
Note: For those who just tuned in, we’re going to reboot the concept of the 1947project (founded by Kim Cooper and Nathan Marsak) by going day by day through 1947 – but using the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African American weekly, rather than the very white and very conservative Los Angeles Times. We promise you an extremely different view of Los Angeles.
(The historic Los Angeles Sentinel is available online from the Los Angeles Public Library. We encourage anyone with a library card to delve into the back issues and explore the history of black L.A.
A streetcar at the junction of Sunset, Santa Monica and Sanborn west of Silver Lake Reservoir drags a pedestrian 160 feet, only stopping when other streetcar operators blow their whistles and people on the street begin yelling . . . an underground explosion at 9th Street and Grand blows tons of concrete, asphalt and overhead trolley cables into the street and sends manhole covers shooting into the air . . . at the inquest for his dead son, Jacob J. Satton tries to attack his estranged wife’s boyfriend, an 19-year-old AWOL soldier who is charged with beating the baby to death while Viola Satton was at work.
Jan. 2, 1947: In the fall of 1939, The Times carried a series of heart-wrenching stories about Dicky Trust, a toddler who was diagnosed with leukemia, which was then incurable.
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