James Lee Dickey: An Analysis of One African-American's Leadership in Jim Crow TexasMain MenuJames Lee Dickey: An Analysis of One African American's Leadership in Jim Crow TexasIntroductionSlave No MoreFreedman after Bondage 1865 - 1955African American LeadershipContenders for the TitleJames Lee DickeyThe Leadership of James Lee DickeyLocations in Dr. James Lee Dickey's StoryGoogle locations for Dr. Dickey's BiographyMaureen Grayab288c53aefb942d3e6102c32f4d6e3a10268d3b
Nursery of the Dickey Clinic
12017-07-13T16:47:12-07:00Maureen Grayab288c53aefb942d3e6102c32f4d6e3a10268d3b197013Dr. Dickey, a nurse, and a few of his many patients.plain2017-07-13T16:51:27-07:00Taylor Public Library ArchivesMaureen Grayab288c53aefb942d3e6102c32f4d6e3a10268d3b
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1media/Dickey clinic 2.jpg2018-02-10T20:45:38-08:00Fixing the Problems8Don't just treat the symptoms, fix the causes.image_header2018-09-20T05:13:36-07:0030.5630187 N, -97.410942WAfter the typhoid crisis, Dr. and Mrs. Dickey purchased the boarding house from the city and in 1935 opened a “15-bed modern hospital – equipped with a well-lighted, safe operation room, a large autoclave sterilizer, instruments of various kinds, and small laboratory for routine examinations of urine, microscopic examination and blood counts.” The Dickey Clinic, so named because African-Americans still associated hospitals with life-threatening surgery and death, was the new standard of health care for African Americans and clients came from Milam, Williamson, Lee, and Bell counties for treatment. It was the only facility serving all races for almost 100 miles. Dr. Dickey had every reason to be proud; he had fulfilled his goal of creating a practice similar, if not better, than his inspiration, the Hunter Clinic in Marlin.