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Andrea A. Hayes Dixon (born 1965) is an American surgeon. She was the first pediatric surgeon to perform a high-risk, life-saving procedure in children with a rare form of cancer and developed the first orthotropic xenograft model of metastatic Ewing's sarcoma.
Natalia Tanner (June 28, 1922 – July 14, 2018) was an American physician. She was the first female African-American fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is known for her activism promoting women and people of color in medicine and fighting health inequality in the United States. [1] [2] [3]
Clarice Reid was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1931. [6] After attending a three-room elementary school in Birmingham, Alabama and the city's only high school for African American students, [7] Reid went on to follow in her father's footsteps by attending Talladega College in Alabama. [7]
The cemetery and a headstone for Burgess E. Scruggs, the first licensed doctor in Alabama has been added to the Alabama State Historic Cemetery Register. [5] The Glenwood Cemetery became part of the African American Civil Rights Network in February 2021, [4] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. [6]
Helen Elizabeth Nash (8 August 1921 – 4 October 2012) was a pediatrician known for breaking racial and gender barriers in the medical field. She began her career at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, and later worked at the Saint Louis Children’s Hospital.
Yeargin-Allsopp was the first African-American student to attend and graduate from Sweet Briar College; she entered the school in 1966, and graduated in 1968. [3] She received her M.D. from Emory University in 1972, where she was the first black woman to enroll in the medical school, [3] and completed her residency in preventive medicine in 1984.
The first public school for African Americans in Huntsville, it was named for William Hooper Councill who founded Lincoln School in Huntsville and pushed for its expansion into the state normal school it became in 1875, leading to its becoming Alabama A&M University. [2] The high school has several prominent alumni.
Desi Barmore (born 1960), American-Israeli basketball player; Mark Barron, NFL player, St. Louis Rams ; Inez Baskin, African American journalist and civil rights activist ; Cynthia Bathurst, animal activist, founder of Safe Humane Chicago and the Court Case Dog Program; Bill Baxley, lieutenant governor