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Article: Against All Odds: The Legacy of Students of African Descent at Harvard Medical School before Affirmative Action, 1850-1968
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- Journal of the National Medical Association
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Against All Odds: The Legacy of Students of African Descent at Harvard Medical School before Affirmative Action, 1850-1968
Nora N. Nercessian; Hollis, NH: Harvard Medical School and Puritan Press, 2004: 294 pages
Against All Odds: The Legacy of Students of African Descent at Harvard Medical School before Affirmative Action, 1850-1968 is divided into two parts. Part 1 chronicles Harvard Medical School's evolving attitude towards educating black Americans from 1850 to 1968. Part 2 provides biographies of students who attended Harvard Medical School. For former students still alive, the author encouraged them to prepare their own biographies.
Part 2 is divided into two sections. The first ...