1923

Tallant affair at Woman’s Medical College: the board, under autocratic president Sarah Logan Wister Starr, refused to reappoint 19-year Professor of Obstetrics Alice Weld Tallant without explanation: faculty resign, students strike for a week, WMC nearly commits suicide (Peitzman, 147-153). Opening of Tuskegee Veterans’ Hospital; in November, four black physicians appointed, but work under supervision of hospital’s white physicians; by end of 1924 black physicians quietly gained control of the facility under direction of Dr. Joseph Ward (Ward, 169).