HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

Despite the name, Plymouth Hospital was a South End institution. As the first training school for Black nurses in segregated Boston, Plymouth provided a needed service to an underserved community, led by a medical pioneer. Dr. Cornelius Nathanial Garland moved to Boston from the deep south to seek opportunity, but while he found opportunity in the Hub, he also found a deeply segregated medical establishment. To fight against this system and provide opportunities for Black Bostonians in medicine, he founded a hospital and nursing school. However, the most radical civil rights leader in Boston would accuse Garland of reinforcing that very same system of segregated medicine.

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• Lisa Garland’s fantastic 2023 profile of Dr. Cornelius Garland
• Dr. Garland and Plymouth Hospital, Alison Barnet, Spring 2014 Aceso: Journal of the Boston University School of Medicine Historical Society
• A profile of Garland in The Crisis, January 1920
• Garland’s obituary in the Sept 1952 Journal of the National Medical Association
• Garland’s obituary in the June 28, 1952 Boston Guardian
• Past podcast guest Ken Liss on the Garlands’ move to Brookline
• Black Bostonia’s oral history interview with Lucille Allen
• Boston Globe articles
  • Nov 13, 1906, Garland runs for city council
  • Feb 26, 1908, the nursing school opens
  • May 14, 1908, fundraiser for Plymouth Hospital
  • Mar 31, 1909, linen shower for Plymouth
  • Aug 26, 1909, National Medical Associan meeting in Boston
  • Aug 27, 1909, Garland elected secretary
  • Sept 20, 1909, annual report of Plymouth Hospital
  • Nov 9, 1909, Plymouth Lend a Hand Society
  • July 1, 1910, first graduates
  • June 13, 1911, second graduating class
• July 30, 1909 Nashville Globe, “Boston The Mecca for Negro Doctors”