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A White Dean and Black Physicians at the Epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement
Richard D. deShazo, MD, Robert Smith, MD, Leigh Baldwin Skipworth, BA The American Journal of Medicine Volume 127, Issue 6, Pages (June 2014) DOI: /j.amjmed Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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Figure 1 The violent nature of resistance to the civil rights movement in Mississippi is demonstrated in these 2 photographs. (A; left) This interaction between police and 5-year-old Anthony Quinn occurred during a 1965 demonstration against police brutality at the Jackson City Hall. (B; right) June Finer, MD, Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) Southern Region Coordinator, comforts Anthony after an American flag was jerked from his hands. Dr Finer was arrested and taken to jail for inspection of her medical bag (shown) for prescription medications, as the state medical licensure agency refused to grant licensure to MCHR physicians. She had none. These pictures were published in The New York Times in July 1965 and were widely discussed. (Matt Herron/TakeStock). The American Journal of Medicine , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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Figure 2 Maurine Twiss, Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) during Marston's tenure. She kept extensive typed notes of activities at UMMC related to civil rights. (Twiss Archives, UMMC Rowland Medical Library). The American Journal of Medicine , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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Figure 3 The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) shortly after its opening in (Twiss Archives, UMMC Rowland Medical Library). The American Journal of Medicine , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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Figure 4 Robert Q. Marston, MD, Dean of the School of Medicine and Director of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in (Twiss Archives, UMMC Rowland Medical Library). The American Journal of Medicine , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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Figure 5 Abbreviated chronology of events in this paper.
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Figure 6 Robert Smith, MD, Mississippi native, family practitioner, founding member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights and longtime national civil rights leader. (Robert Smith, MD). The American Journal of Medicine , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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Figure 7 The Brenner and Coles letter was mailed to physicians in Mississippi in June of 1964 by Harvard psychologist Robert Cole and Massachusetts Institute of Technology physician Joseph Brenner. They participated in the orientation of Freedom Summer volunteers at Oxford, Ohio. (Re-illustrated from reference #17). The American Journal of Medicine , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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Figure 8 Missing poster showing the 3 civil rights workers whose bodies were later found in Neshoba County, Mississippi in August (Federal Bureau of Investigation, June 1964). The American Journal of Medicine , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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Figure 9 J. Edgar Hoover's July 1965 response to a letter from Dr Marston requesting release of the Featherston autopsy reports on 3 civil rights workers. (Twiss Archives, University of Mississippi Medical Center Rowland Medical Library). The American Journal of Medicine , DOI: ( /j.amjmed ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions
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