Appears In: “Civil Rights”

The Civil Rights Doctor, Revisited by Fitzhugh Mullan

Civil Rights • December 2, 2022

The author recalls the summer of 1965, which he spent in Holmes County, Mississippi, as a medical civil rights worker. About the Article Originally appearing in Academic Medicine, SMA Founder Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan recalls the poverty, bravery, ignorance, brotherhood, racism, hate, and love he experienced that summer, which led him to conclude he would become a civil rights doctor. When...

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