Clara C. Frye

Clara C. Frye (1872–1936) was an African American nurse in Tampa, Florida who established the Clara Frye Hospital, where she worked for 20 years in the early 1900s. Frye's hospital admitted patients of all ethnicities.

Frye moved to Tampa in 1901 and in 1908 opened a hospital for black patients in her home. Her dining room table was the operating table. A building was secured in 1923 and was purchased by the City of Tampa in 1928.^[1] At the time, the Tampa Municipal Hospital, now Tampa General Hospital, did not admit African American patients. This changed in the 1950s.

The Clara Frye Memorial Hospital that existed in West Tampa from 1938 to 1967 was named after her. The original Tampa General Hospital building was renamed after Frye in 1991. Frye will also be immortalized along with other prominent Tampa historical figures on the Tampa Riverwalk with a bronze bust.^[1]

A memorial garden at Water Works Park (Tampa) honors her legacy.

References

1 2 [Riverwalk honors history] March 7, 2012 Tampa Bay Times

Florida Women's Hall of Fame
administered by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women

1980–1989

1982	Mary McLeod Bethune Helene S. Coleman Elaine Gordon Wilhelmina Celeste Goehring Harvey Paula Mae Milton Barbara Jo Palmer

1984	Roxcy O’Neal Bolton Barbara Landstreet Frye Lena B. Smithers Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Sybil Collins Mobley Helen Muir Gladys Pumariega Soler Julia DeForest Sturtevant Tuttle

1986	Annie Ackerman Rosemary Barkett Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry Dorothy Dodd Marjory Stoneman Douglas Elsie Jones Hare Elizabeth McCullough Johnson Frances Bartlett Kinne Arva Moore Parks McCabe Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Florence Barbara Seibert Marilyn K. Smith Eartha M. M. White

1990–1999

1992	Jacqueline Cochran Carrie P. Meek Ruth Bryan Owen

1993	Betty Skelton Frankman Erde Paulina Pedroso Janet Reno

1994	Nikki Beare Betty Mae Jumper Gladys Nichols Milton

1995	Evelyn Stocking Crosslin JoAnn Hardin Morgan Sarah Brooks Pryor

1996	Marjorie Harris Carr Betty Castor Ivy Julia Cromartie Stranahan

1997	Alicia Baro Carita Doggett Corse M. Athalie Range

1998	Helen Gordon Davis Mattie Belle Davis Christine Fulwylie-Bankston

1999	Althea Gibson Sister Jeanne O’Laughlin Dessie Smith Prescott

2000–2009

2000	Chris Evert Paula Fickes Hawkins Marianne Mathewson-Chapman

2001	Jessie Ball duPont Lenore Carrero Nesbitt Lynda Keever

2002	Victoria Joyce Ely Toni Jennings Frances Langford Stuart

2003	Sarah Ann Blocker Gloria Estefan Mary R. Grizzle

2004/2005	Shirley D. Coletti Judith Kersey Marion Hammer

2005/2006	Caridad Asensio Tillie Kidd Fowler Lucy W. Morgan

2006/2007	Maryly VanLeer Peck Peggy A. Quince

2007/2008	Barbara J. Pariente Pallavi Patel Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

2008/2009	Louise H. Cortelis Gwen Margolis Betty Schlesinger Sembler

2009/2010	Eugenie Clark Claudine Dianne Ryce Dara Grace Torres

2010–2019

2010/2011	Mary Brennan Karl Anna I. Rodriguez

2011/2012	Ruth H. Alexander Elizabeth "Budd" Bell Vicki Bryant Burke

2012/2013	Clara C. Frye Aleene Pridgen Kidd MacKenzie Lillie Pierce Voss

2013/2014	Susan Benton Louise Jones Gopher Dottie Berger MacKinnon

2014/2015	Mary Lee Farrior Evelyn Cahn Keiser Charlotte Edwards Maguire

2016	Carol Jenkins Barnett Helen Aguirre Ferré Elmira Louise Leto

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