06/08/2026
When Black families were turned away from hospitals because of the color of their skin, nurse Clara Frye refused to accept it. She opened her home to care for the sick and injured, using her dining room as an operating room. What started in her house grew into a hospital that served Tampa’s Black community for decades. Her story reminds us that when systems failed our people, our communities built their own solutions rooted in care, dignity, and love