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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hereford, Sonnie W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American physicians--Alabama--Biography.
- African American physicians.
- Hereford, Sonnie W.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8506-1
- OCLC:
- 772459652
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