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Beside the troubled waters : a black doctor remembers life, medicine, and civil rights in an Alabama town /
Beside the Troubled Waters is a memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era while also illustrating the diversity of the black experience in the medical profession. Based on int...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Beside the Troubled Waters is a memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era while also illustrating the diversity of the black experience in the medical profession. Based on interviews conducted with Hereford over ten years, the account includes his childhood and youth as the son of a black sharecropper and Primitive Baptist minister in Madison County, Alabama, during the Depression; his education at Huntsville's all-black Councill School and medical training at Meha. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 177 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-171) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817385064 0817385061 |