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Doctors Orders
Southern Hollows
English - November 23, 2019 21:42 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsHistory Society & Culture civilrights ushistory history historystorytelling southernhistory storiesfromhistory storytelling unitedstateshistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Breaking Down
In the Spring of 1944, the town of New Iberia, Louisiana, threatened, beat, and expelled key leaders of the town’s black community – leaders who had recently formed a new NAACP branch and were in danger of getting, by some accounts, the “upper hand.” Among the expelled were the town’s only black physicians, and their removal left the town without a black doctor – or strong black community leadership – until the civil rights movement.
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