KANSAS CITY — Black doctors once posed as janitors to train at Kansas City's whites-only hospital. And black nurses sometimes used an underground tunnel to discreetly transport their sickest patients into the better-equipped white hospital next door.
Film tells story of Kansas City's once segregated hospitals
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | 6:37 p.m. CDT;
updated 6:57 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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