Charlotte City Council voted Monday night to designate the home of the doctor who integrated Charlotte’s hospitals as a historic landmark. In 1962, Dr. C. Warren Williams, a surgeon, fought to become the first Black doctor to be granted medical privileges at the Charlotte Memorial Hospital, now Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center. The hospital itself was fully integrated a year later. Before that, Black patients in Charlotte could only receive treatment at underfunded and overcrowded segregated hospitals.
The split-level ranch home in northwest Charlotte dates to 1963 the same year the city’s hospitals integrated.
