Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Journal of the National Medical Association

  • “Without dissent”: Early black physicians in Alabama

    A.J. WrightBirmingham, Alabama, USA There is a brief but interesting note in the July 1953 issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association, the official voice of the organization founded in 1895 for African-American physicians in the U.S. At first glance this decision by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama—as it was formally…