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This powerful biography traces the career of an African American physician and civil rights advocate, Edward Craig Mazique (1911-1987), from the poverty and discrimination of Natchez, Mississippi, to his status as a prominent physician in Washington, D.C. Florence Ridlon relates how Dr. Mazique's grandfather went from being a slave to becoming one of the largest landowners in Adams County, Mississippi. This moving story of one man's accomplishments, in spite of many opposing forces, is also a chapter in the struggle of African Americans to achieve equality in the twentieth-century. At a time when blacks were being denied entry into the American Medical Association and the staffs of most hospitals, Dr. Mazique was president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society and the National Medical Association, black counterparts to the all-white District Medical Society and American Medical Association. Dr. Mazique worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. and presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson as well as black physicians, to expand the availability of health care at a time when many conservative physicians, both black and white, opposed the establishment of Medicare and other federal health programs. Much of this story is in Dr. Mazique's own words, taken from interviews with the author. What emerges from this biography is a picture of an exceptional but very human man, who, despite discrimination and repression, excelled beyond all expectations.
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Biography of Edward Mazique, respected physician, contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr., and influential Civil Rights activist in Washington, D.C.
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Biography of Edward Mazique, respected physician, contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr., and influential Civil Rights activist in Washington, D.C.
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A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D.
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University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2005
ISBN 10: 0826333397
ISBN 13: 9780826333391
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Seller: George Longden, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 230 x 150 mm. xxiv, 391 pp. Black cloth boards in pictorial jacket. Small bumps to corners of boards. A bright, presentable copy. This biography traces the career of an African American physician and civil rights advocate, Edward Craig Mazigue (1911-1987), from the poverty and discrimination of Natchez, Mississippi, to prominence in Washington, D.C. Includes end-notes, bibliography and index. Book. Seller Inventory # 61341