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

Hereford, Sonnie W. (Author). Ellis, Jack D. (Added Author).

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 & rsquo;s all-black Councill School and medical training at Meha.

Record details

ISBN: 081731721X
ISBN: 9780817317218
ISBN: 0817385061
ISBN: 0817385061
ISBN: 9780817385064
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 177 pages) : illustrations
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electronic resource
Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-171) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.