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He challenged the medical community by success-fully suing the Broward County Medical Association for his admittance. Later, Broward General Medical Center stripped Mizell of surgical privileges; he filed suit and won a $17 million lawsuit against the hospital, charging racism. He regained his privileges. He also staged sit-ins and-protests, and participated in a boycott of Fort Lauderdale's "Colored School," which held a split school year so that "colored" children could work in the fields during the winter.
On Dec. 8, 1937 a young Black man was shot in the stomach by a carload of young men, rumored to be Klansmen, as he walked along Hammondsville Road. Physicians in two white hospitals, including Broward General Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, refused to treat the young man. Mizell argued with the now defunct Memorial Hospital to let him and the victim into the hospital's operating room so he could remove the bullet. As soon as the operation was done, however. Memorial staff insisted the young man be moved out of the hospital. The incident spurred the Black community into action. Three months later, Dr. Mizell was instrumental in establishing Provident Hospital, the first hospital for Blacks in Broward County.See the full content of this document
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Doctor and Activist von Delaney Mizell
Dr. Von Delaney Mizell is a hometown hero. Dr. Mizell was born in 1910 in Jasper, Fla., and was the eldest of 14 children.
He distinguished himself early, graduating valedictorian of his class at Florida Normal and In...See the full content of this document
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