Robert F. Boyd (physician)

Robert Fulton Boyd was a physician and dentist who was the first president of the National Medical Association.[1] Boyd and other African American physicians started the National Medical Association because during the Jim Crowe era the southern medical societies, medical facilities, and medical schools were racially segregated by state laws.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Morrison, Sheena M.; Fee, Elizabeth (2010-04-01). "The Journal of the National Medical Association: A Voice for Civil Rights and Social Justice". American Journal of Public Health 100 (Suppl 1): S70–S71. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.175042. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 2837443. PMID 20147673.
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