Word: doctorsâ
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...ride in these elevators. You will have to step out." The elevator attendant was talking to one of the doctors???Dr. A. G. Fairfax, Negro, of Chicago. Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet?and here I stay!" His white colleagues murmured sympathetically; and dumbfounded the elevatorman carried the group to the lobby on the ground floor. Later he explained: "I did not know the colored man was a doctor. My orders from the desk are to allow no colored man to ride in the elevators unless he is with a white...
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