Thomas Rudolph Vickers (1879-1965) was born in Key West and graduated from Howard University's medical school. About 1912 he started a medical practice on Rosemary Avenue, one of seven black…
Dr. Joseph Wiley Jenkins (1901-1950) was born in Summerville, South Carolina. He met and married Roberta Robinson (1907-2002) in Tampa, where she was studying, in 1929. Jenkins came to West…
Thomas Leroy Jefferson (1867-1939) was born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. His father, Thomas Jefferson, was light-skinned and a leading citizen in Hazelhurst after the Civil War. According to family legend, he…
Clarence L. "Carl" Brumback, M.D., M.P.H. (1914-2012) was born in Colorado and raised in Kansas, where he completed medical school at the University of Kansas. During World War II Brumback…
Stephen Bennett Bell (1844-1896) was born in Decatur County, Georgia, to Margaretta Moore and Larkin Bell. Stephen attended medical school in Philadelphia, it is believed at one of the Eclectic…