Reminiscences of May Edwards Chinn :koral history, 1979.

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Reminiscences of May Edwards Chinn :koral history, 1979.

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Family origins, childhood, New York City; education, New York City public schools, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1917-22, College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1933; interest in music: teaching piano, United Service Organizations in World War I; Bellevue Hospital; private practice, Harlem, 1922-26; intern, Harlem Hospital; work at Strang Clinic, black colleagues; racial discrimination.

Transcript: 91 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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Chinn, May Edward, 1896-

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of May Edwards Chinn :koral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122362006 Physician. May Chinn was the first African-American woman graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and the first African-American woman doctor in Harlem. From the guide to the May Edward Chinn collection, 1926-1980, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...