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::::This is the African American Group, Please respect this:::: https://www.google.com/search?q=white+american+doctor&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS691US691&hl=en-US&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl5eSv4YnrAhWGGs0KHYt_Ap8Q_AUoAXoECA0QAQ&biw=414&bih=622
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Someone had time today... (Original Post)
irisblue
Aug 2020
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irisblue
(34,370 posts)1. Apparently my sense of humor is more outlandish today
sheshe2
(87,868 posts)2. Google White American Doctors...
Then this comes up! Black Doctors! Love it.
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Look what I found there.
Meet Dr Johnson, The First Female African-American Doctor in Alabama
Dr Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson becomes the 1st woman of any race to practice medicine in the state of Alabama.
MARRIAGE & COLLEGE: In 1886 Halle married Charles Dillon, and the couple had a child before her husbands sudden death. A widow at 24, Halle returned to live with her family and decided to enter medical school. After three years of study at the Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania, she earned her M.D. in 1891, graduating with honors.
Around the time of her graduation, African-American educator Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had written to the Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania to request a nomination for a teaching position he had been struggling to fill for four years. He hoped to find an African-American physician to serve the school and its surrounding community. Johnson accepted Washingtons offer of US $600 a month, including lodging and meals, and arrived to begin her service in August 1891.
CAREER: Before beginning her new job, however, young Dr. Dillon had to face a significant obstacle: passing the Alabama State Medical Examination. The very fact that she was sitting for the examination caused a public stir in Montgomery, Alabama. She spent ten days taking the exam, addressing a different area of medicine each day. Her examiners included the directors and leading figures of most of the states major medical institutions. Dillon impressed them with her responses and she passed the test.
Read More: https://womenafrica.com/meet-dr-johnson-the-first-female-african-american-doctor-in-alabama/
Thanks for the link, iris, in more was than one.
qwlauren35
(6,278 posts)3. For the record
This happened in 2017. However, I am SURE that it still happens.