{"id":6637,"date":"2022-04-22T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=6637"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:36:59","slug":"climbing-the-ladder-chasing-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/climbing-the-ladder-chasing-the-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Candace O\u2019Connor \u201970<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Published by University of Missouri Press, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/57691684-climbing-the-ladder-chasing-the-dream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">O\u2019Connor\u2019s nonfiction work<\/a> is a history of Homer G. Phillips Hospital, a leading Black institution that opened in St. Louis in 1937. O\u2019Connor chronicles the hospital\u2019s decades of prosperity\u2014during which it treated generations of patients, trained nursing students, and attracted top medical residents and physicians from around the country. (As the author notes, by the 1950s, three-quarters of the African-American babies born in St. Louis were delivered there.) But societal changes and financial constraints eventually led the hospital to close in 1979; it sat vacant for years until it was renovated into a senior residence. \u201cHomer G. Phillips Hospital was born at a time of virulent prejudice,\u201d O\u2019Connor writes in her introduction, \u201cbut the Black community in St. Louis was growing and finding its voice.\u201d A journalist and St. Louis resident who has penned several previous books on her city\u2019s history, O\u2019Connor also wrote and co-produced the PBS documentary \u201cOh Freedom After While: The Missouri Sharecropper Protest of 1939.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/books\/\">More books by Cornellian authors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by University of Missouri Press, this nonfiction work by Candace O\u2019Connor \u201970 is a history of Homer G. 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