Quote:During the height of Jim Crow segregation, the Dispensary’s stated mission was to treat anyone “irrespective of sect, creed, or color.” It was one of the only White-run hospitals in New Orleans that administered to African Americans, and The Times-Picayune reported in 1948 that Edith was one of the first women in the South to perform a major operation — an appendectomy on an African American girl — helping pave the way for “this to become a legal and commonplace occurrence.”