Freedom Enterprise, xv (Mercy Hospital)

Identifier: DBB-ITM-02624
Source: Kendra D. Boyd, Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Pages: xv.
Source Type: Boyd Research Findings
Activity: hospital
Principal: Mercy Hospital
Mentions: Northcross, Daisy L. (née Hill); Northcross, David Caneen
Location: 668 Winder St
Transcript: Mercy Hospital. Located at 668 Winder Street, this was the city’s
first Black-owned
hospital. Mercy was established in 1917 by Drs.
David and Daisy Northcross, married medical doctors from Montgomery,
Alabama, who, according to their son, moved to Detroit
in 1917 to escape the persecution of the Ku Klux Klan. By 1922
Mercy Hospital had moved from its original location to a new
building with space for additional patients and an operating room.
Title: Freedom Enterprise, xv (Mercy Hospital)

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