Dr. Melvin E. Jenkins Papers 1925-2010

Brown, Grant G., 1874-1925.

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Brown, Val J., 1953-

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National Medical Association (U.S.)

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Howard University. School of Medicine

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University of Nebraska Medical center

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Jenkins, Melvin E., 1923-

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Dr. Melvin E. Jenkins (b. 1923) was a pediatrician as well as professor. He graduated from Sumner High School as Valedictorian in 1940 and received both his B.A. and M.D. from the University of Kansas (1944, 1946). He worked for the Howard University Hospital, an Air Force Hospital at Nagoya, Japan, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the University of Nebraska School of Medicine before settling at Howard again for the remainder of his career. While at Howard, Jenkins acted as professor and...

Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.)

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Sumner High School (SHS) began in 1905, following passage of Kansas House Bill No. 890, which allowed for the segregation of Kansas high schools. SHS classes met afternoons in the old Kansas City, Kansas High School building. The first SHS class graduated in 1906. That fall, SHS began a 34-year tenure in a new building at Ninth Street and Washington Boulevard. Beginning in 1923, SHS became a senior high school (grades 10-12). Due to a great increase in enrollment, in 1932 the Kansas City, Kansas...