Reminiscences of May Edwards Chinn : oral history, 1979.

Biographical Note

Physician

Scope and Contents

Family origins, childhood, New York City; education, New York City public schools, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1917-1922, College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1933; interest in music: teaching piano, United Service Organizations in World War I; Bellevue Hospital; private practice, Harlem, 1922-1926; intern, Harlem Hospital; work at Strang Clinic, Black colleagues; racial discrimination

Subjects

• African Americans--Education.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• Chinn, May Edward, 1896-1980.
• Columbia University.
• Dammond, Ellen Craft, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Medical education.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Women physicians--Interviews.

Access Conditions

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