Abstract

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This article focuses on the race discrimination in the U.S. The death of a forty-three year old Negroes, Robert Dorsey Smith, in the Galveston alley is an example of the brutality of the police and hospital authorities towards Negroes. Smith had been employed by a local packing firm for twenty years. The evening before his death he was struck by an automobile on a busy Galveston street. He was taken from the scene of the accident to John Sealy Hospital. From there he was taken by the police to drive him home but halfway they dropped him off, with about nine blocks to walk. He was found dead in an alley not far from where he had got out of the police car. Smith's experience suggests the kind of emergency hospital treatment that Negroes receive in many Southern towns.