Plymouth Hospital and Nurses’ Training School is established.

Founded by Dr. Cornelius Garland, it is located in the former Beth Israel Hospital building at 12 East Springfield Street. The first hospital operated by African-Americans in Boston, it treats patients of all races. Garland creates the hospital because Boston City Hospital, while treating minorities, does not allow them in its training programs or on its medical staff. Garland attempts to expand the hospital in 1928, but is opposed by William Monroe Trotter, Dr. William Worthy, and others who instead want to promote integrated health care. After Boston City Hospital begins to admit people of color into their medical and nursing programs, the hospital closes in 1929.