He had become the mentee of a famous Black doctor by the name of Aris T. Allen, the same doctor who helped Gertrude deliver Faye into the world in 1953. For years, Allen had operated as one of only three Black physicians in Annapolis. Dr. Allen would go door-to-door, serving Black families who, prior to the 1960s, were not allowed inside the Annapolis Medical Center. He had been Dr. Sims’s personal pediatrician and later became the first African American to run for statewide office in Maryland and to chair the Republican Party.
