{"id":63753,"date":"2022-05-09T03:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63753"},"modified":"2022-05-13T01:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T01:53:26","slug":"lost-boundaries-doctor-ousted-charges-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63753","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lost Boundaries\u2019 Doctor Ousted, Charges Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u2018Lost Boundaries\u2019 Doctor Ousted, Charges Bias<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jet_(magazine)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JET Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n1953-06-25<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 50%;\" src=\"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1209636288_84ae162902_w.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_C._Johnston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Albert C. Johnston<\/a>, Negro physician in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keene,_New_Hampshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keene, N. H.<\/a>, whose story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing for white<\/a> was told in the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lost_Boundaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lost Boundaries<\/em><\/a>, was fired from his post as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radiology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">radiologist<\/a> at Keene\u2019s Elliott Community Hospital. Chester Kingsbury, hospital board president, said racial prejudice was not the reason for the dismissal, claimed that Dr. Johnston could not devote full time to the job. Dr. Johnston said he would not seek reinstatement, Dr. Johnston explained there was \u201cno doubt whatsoever\u201d that he was fired because of the film of his life. \u201cThey have been picking on me ever since my story came out (in 1949). I don\u2019t give a darn for the job itself, but I\u2019m concerned over the fact that I was fired because I\u2019m a Negro,\u201d he declared. The physician said he learned that the hospital was looking for a new radiologist soon after he let his children know their racial identity in 1947, added that \u201csomebody began knifing me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Albert C. Johnston, Negro physician in Keene, N. H., whose story of passing for white was told in the<br \/>\nmovie &#8220;Lost Boundaries,&#8221; was fired from his post as radiologist at Keene\u2019s Elliott Community Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,10],"tags":[33048,16585,33464,33471,18930,33466,5755],"class_list":["post-63753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-uk","tag-albert-c-johnston","tag-albert-johnston","tag-albert-johnston-sr","tag-chester-kingsbury","tag-jet-magazine","tag-keene","tag-new-hampshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63814,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63753\/revisions\/63814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}