Article: Against All Odds: The Legacy of Students of African Descent at Harvard Medical School before Affirmative Action, 1850-1968

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 ...

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