Bibb County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Dyer (M.D.), Crawford Wilfred Ernest 
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Cemetery:           Linwood Cemetery
Name:               Crawford Wilfred Ernest Dyer (M.D.)

Date Of Photograph: June 25, 2005
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Dr. Crawford Wilfred Ernest Dyer (M.D.)

b: 31 January 1893

d: 15 February 1968


Additional Comments:
     Dr. Crawford Wilfred Ernest Dyer devoted his life to suppressing human 
suffering.  Dr. Dyer was the founder of the former St. Luke's Hospital for 
African-Americans in Macon, Georgia.  He was also dedicated to instilling in 
black Americans the incentive to excel.
     Dr. Dyer was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in British West Indies.  He 
came to the United States during his teenage years.  During those times, laws 
segragated virtually every aspect of life.  Dr. Dyer's remarkable achievements 
started in school.  He attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. for two 
years and then later enrolled in Meharry Medical College in Nashville, 
Tennessee.  He received his doctorate degree from Meharry in 1915.  Dr. Dyer's 
intellectual capacity and community leadership abilities helped to establish 
St. Luke's Hospital.  Dr. Dyer opened his clinic in Macon, Georgia in 1928.  
He had practiced medicine in Millegville and Warrenton.  The clinic was the 
start of what was to become St. Luke's Hospital.  The hospital was started 
mainly due to local black doctors not being able to practice at the Macon 
Hospital due to racist policies of the time.  In 1957 this practice was 
stopped.  Many white doctors came to St. Luke's to assist and show techniques 
to the doctors at the hospital.
     When the Macon Hospital became integrated, blacks no longer were in need 
of St. Luke's and in 1963 it was closed.  It had been in service over forty 
years.  Dr. Dyer was a person worthy of admiration.  People looked up to him 
for strength, wisdom and understanding.  Dr. Dyer's legacy will always be 
remembered as an immense contribution toward the progress of the African-
American community in Macon, Georgia.

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