Zoom Only – When Care Was Color-Coded: The History of KC’s Segregated Health Care System

You are committing to participate in the Wednesday class via Zoom from your own device.  We will not have an in-person seat in the classroom available for you.

In the early days of Kansas City’s growth, the city’s hospitals were both segregated and separate as was common at the time. We will explore the people who provided care, the places it was provided, the differences in care and the resistance to change by both black and white Kansas City citizens. Our story ends with how the recommendations of a young accountant in Kansas City’s 1950s budget department triggered dramatic social change in the city's provision of medical services.