Beside the troubled waters : a black doctor remembers life, medicine, and civil rights in an Alabama town

Author/Creator:: Hereford, Sonnie W.
Publication/Creation:: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2011
Format:: Book
Edition:: 1st ed.

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Full Title:: Beside the troubled waters : a black doctor remembers life, medicine, and civil rights in an Alabama town / Sonnie Wellington Hereford III and Jack D. Ellis

Subjects:: Hereford, Sonnie W.
African American physicians--Alabama--Biography

Table of Contents:: Through a glass darkly -- To be a doctor -- Medical practice under segregation -- Bringing freedom to the rocket city -- Integrating the hospital and the schools -- Troubles and trials.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:: Beside the Troubled Waters is 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 while also illustrating the diversity of the black experience in the medical profession. Based on interviews conducted with Hereford over ten years, the account includes his childhood and youth as the son of a black sharecropper and Primitive Baptist minister in Madison County, Alabama, during the Depression; his education at Huntsville's all-black Councill School and medical training at
Language:: English
Language Note:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (190 p.)
General Note:: Description based upon print version of record.