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Ruth Janetta Temple
Ruth Janetta Temple (1892–1984) was a leader in providing free and affordable healthcare and education to underserved communities in Los Angeles, California. She and her husband, Otis Banks, established the Temple Health Institute in East Los Angeles, which became a model for community-based health clinics across the country.
==Early life==
Dr. Ruth Janetta Temple was born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1892 to Amy Morton and Richard Jason Temple. Ruth was her parents' second-born child. Her siblings included Walter, Vivian, Richard, Ethel, and Lanier Temple. Two other siblings died at a young age.
Temple's parents stressed the importance of education and humanism. Her father, a Baptist minister and graduate of Denison University, especially stressed the importance of looking beyond racial barriers and therefore made his home to be a place where people of all backgrounds could congregate. He even shared his personal collection of books written in Greek and Hebrew with Jewish, Catholic and Protestant theologians who needed them for research. Her father felt that, "People will come into our house. All people, all kinds of people, of all race all creeds, all colors, and all educational backgrounds. Our children will learn love before they learn hate." His perspective on race had a strong impact on Temple's life and made it easier for her to work in integrated spaces in her adult life. Temple's mother shared her husband's community spirit. She frequently invited people who were less fortunate into their home for food and clothing.
Two years after her father died in 1902, Judith and her family moved to southeast Los Angeles. Now a young woman, Temple helped her mother by caring for her younger siblings. Critical experiences during this period led Temple to pursue a career in medicine with the goal of providing health care to communities in need. Temple saved her oldest brother who was severely injured in an accident involving gunpowder. In another incident, while babysitting an infant she had to actively find help while the child suffered from a fever. These experiences inspired Ruth to pursue a career in medicine because there were no other medical resources for black people, and she knew that other black people would not be as reluctant as her in finding help.
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