St. Jude’s historic roadmap in the segregated South
This was Paul Williams' original five-point design for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. With five spokes from a central hub, the initial St. Jude building served thousands of patients during the hospital’s formative years and hosted groundbreaking research that produced the first major advances in treating leukemia and other childhood diseases. (Courtesy St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
St. Jude became the first fully integrated children’s hospital in the South, where Black and white patients were treated in the same room, dined together and shared bathroom facilities.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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