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  • Physicians for the People

    Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

    by Jack D. Ellis ...
    Series series NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    WINNER OF THE JAMES F. SULZBY AWARDHealing against the odds—Black doctors, bold resistance, and the fight for medical justice in Alabama.Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who defied segregation by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beside the Troubled Waters

    A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town

    by Jack D. Ellis, Dr. Sonnie Wellington Hereford III ...
    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 eraBeside 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Physicians for the People

    Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

    by Jack D. Ellis ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who defied segregation by establishing hospitals and clinics and providing vital healthcare to underserved Black communities.This meticulously researched work draws on ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Baby Thief

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  • Freedom in the Family

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  • Untold Glory

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  • Beaches, Blood, and Ballots

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  • ...But You Can't Enslave My Thinking...

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