Jack D. Ellis

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Beside the Troubled Waters

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

University of Alabama Press

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

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Physicians for the People

Black Doctors and the Struggle for Healthcare Equality in Alabama, 1870—1970

University of Alabama Press

In Physicians for the People, Jack D. Ellis illuminates the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, highlighting both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in medical professions.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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