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Simkins V. Mosess H. Cone Memorial Hospital Case Summary

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One of the most controversial cases that dealt with racial discrimination which transpired in the early 1960’s was the case of Simkins versus Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital. The plaintiff, George Simkins Jr., DDS (Doctor of Dental Surgery), who acted as a president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) local chapter, was a renowned, honored dentist, and a civil rights activist from Greensboro, North Carolina. While the defendant, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital was accused of denying admitting entitlement to black physicians and dentists, admittance of black patients, and training of black interns. However, the juridical reasoning applied in the Simkins lawsuit was not just about disparity, but the fact
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