Hale Infirmary

In 1883, Booker T. Washington (his classmate at Hampton[4]) had asked him to come to Montgomery, and he was one of the first Black doctors to be licensed in the state.

He donated the land for the hospital, and money was raised for the building by a white women's social organization.

[5] It cost $7,000 to build, had plumbing throughout and bathrooms for men and women with hot and cold running water.

[4] Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson, the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the state, was tutored in Hale Infirmary.

In 1919, the lynching of Willie Temple took place in the hospital: he was murdered by a white mob while being treated for a gunshot wound.