Black doctors founded Dunbar Memorial Hospital in the late 1910s to tackle a glaring gap in medical care amid the Great Migration.
Why it matters: The building, designated as a historic site near Detroit’s cultural center, is a physical reminder of how Black physicians built their own institutions to provide health care when patients were shut out of traditional care.
Flashback: Detroit’s Black population climbed from 6,000 in 1910 to 120,000 in 1930, as millions of African Americans moved from the South to the North and Midwest to leave racial violence behind, find work and build new lives…