![]() Despite his busy Hollywood career, Danny Thomas hit the road on behalf of St. ![]() So did his longtime lawyer, Paul Ziffren, helping him set up the corporation that created a strong foundation for St. And at the dining room table, he started to figure out how he was going to do it, who he was going to enlist and start to raise the funds to take on the project.”ĭanny Thomas’ talent representatives at the William Morris Agency took on St. So my father said, ‘I’m going to build a hospital in the South where no child is turned away for race, religion or anything else.’ So that is how it got to be in the South. By the time the little boy got admitted, the little boy had died. “The driver had picked the child up, drove around to several hospitals and no hospital would take the little boy. “It started after he read an article (about a situation) where a young Black child was hit by a white driver in Mississippi,” Tony Thomas says. The catalyst to get it all going came from a heartbreaking newspaper article that illuminated the cost of segregation in the deep south. ![]() So that was always in the back of his mind.” “He lived in a neighborhood where children died of appendicitis, or tetanus or various infections that they never should have died from because they couldn’t afford medical care. “My father grew up very poor,” Tony Thomas says.
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