In the early 20th century, the hospital—which was then segregated—refused to allow Dr. Arthur Falls Sr. to perform surgery on Dorothy Day, which both she and Falls protested. The hospital eventually relented, though on paper listed Falls as an assisting surgeon to a White physician.[2]
^Alden Whitman (January 28, 1972). "Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer and a Civil Rights Symbol, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved December 15, 2014. Mahalia Jackson, who rose from Deep South poverty to world renown as a passionate gospel singer, died of a heart seizure yesterday in Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb.
