TB Clinic, 1920
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African American women, their children, and clinic workers, in front of the Flanner House Clinical Building. At this time, most Indianapolis medical facilities refused to treat African Americans, leading to a higher mortality rate among infected African Americans than whites. Therefore, Flanner House provided medical services, like the free tuberculosis clinic pictured here on December 14, 1920.
Image Courtesy of W.H. Bass Photo Company Collection, Indiana Historical Society.
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Flanner House
Flanner House provides services and resources to sustain and empower individuals in order to build a self-sufficient community. Established in 1898, Flanner Guild, as it was then called, began as a settlement house for African Americans in…