Meharry Medical College photograph collection.

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Meharry Medical College photograph collection.

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Photographs relating to Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, used in the book Educating black doctors: a history of Meharry Medical College.

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Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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Summerville, James, 1947-

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Meharry Medical College. Library

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Meharry Medical College opened its doors on Oct. 13, 1876 as the Meharry Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, later Walden University, with the purpose of producing "intelligent physicians among the Colored people"; named for benefactors, Samuel Meharry and his four brothers, Hugh, Alexander, David, and Jessie Meharry, who together donated $20,000 in 1875; the school became a separate institution in 1915. From the description of Board of Trustees records, 1974-1993. (Meha...