Segregation, civil rights, and health disparities: the legacy of African American physicians and organized medicine, 1910-1968.

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Published in J Natl Med Assoc on June 01, 2009

Authors

Harriet A Washington1, Robert B Baker, Ololade Olakanmi, Todd L Savitt, Elizabeth A Jacobs, Eddie Hoover, Matthew K Wynia, Writing Group on the History of African Americans and the Medical Profession, Janice Blanchard, L Ebony Boulware, Clarence Braddock, Giselle Corbie-Smith, LaVera Crawley, Thomas A LaVeist, Randall Maxey, Charles Mills, Kathryn L Moseley, David R Williams

Author Affiliations

1: DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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