SCAB: City & County Hospital
Site of the former Negro Ward
Fort Worth TX
2019

SCAB: City & County Hospital
Site of the former Negro Ward
Fort Worth TX
2019

After Mr. Fred Rouse was attacked and left for dead in the Niles City Stockyards, he was taken to the basement of the Negro Ward of City & County Hospital. On December 11, 1921, at approximately 11:00 p.m., a mob of white men entered the hospital while Mr. Rouse was recovering from the injuries he incurred. The men threatened the hospital staff, forced their way into the Negro Ward, kidnapped Mr. Rouse in his hospital gown, and drove north on Samuels Avenue to the “Death Tree.”

2019

Digital photograph

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Ku Klux Klan (20th century)--Texas

Fort Worth (Tex.)

Rouse, Fred