Dr Von Delany Mizell
(1910-1973)

Died aged c. 63

Dr. Von Delany Mizell was born in 1910 in Broward County. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, returning to establish a medical practice as Broward County’s second African-American physician. He challenged the medical establishment, staged sit-ins and protests and started the first NAACP chapter in South Florida. With his predecessor Dr. James F. Sistrunk, Dr. Mizell founded Provident Hospital in 1938. In 1942, he participated in a boycott of Fort Lauderdale’s "Colored School" to end the practice of a split school year that allowed children to work in the fields during the winter. A federal court ordered the local school board to stop the practice, which also allowed the school to become accredited. He successfully sued the Broward County Medical Association for admittance. Dr. Von Delany Mizell died in 1973.

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Von Delany Mizell (1910–1973) was the second black physician in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and since at that time Fort Lauderdale's hospitals would not accept "colored" patients, he helped establish Provident Hospital for black residents. He staged sit-ins and protests, boycotted Fort Lauderdale’s "Colored School", and successfully sued the Broward County Medical Association for admittance. He started the first NAACP chapter in South Florida. He was also involved in efforts to provide a beach for black residents to use and to desegregate Broward County's other beaches.

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