Dr. Jim Crow: the University of North Carolina, the Regional Medical School for Negroes, and the desegregation of Southern Medical Education, 1945-1960.

In February 1951, just before the controversy began to heat up over admitting the first African American student to the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Dean Walter Reece Berryhill received a letter from J. Charles Jordan, president of the Old North State Medical Society (ONSMS). The ONSMS, founded in 1887, was the nation's oldest black state medical society and affiliated with the National Medical Association (NMA), founded in 1895, and a membership of more than 2,000 black physicians nationwide by 1950. Jordan protested that there were "less facilities provided for the training of Negro medical aspirants in the entire United States than there are for North ...

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