Falk (Leslie A.) African American history research collection, 1842-1999.

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Falk (Leslie A.) African American history research collection, 1842-1999.

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This collection contains materials on Dr. Leslie A. Falk's medical career and his Civil Rights activities in Mississippi, but the bulk of the collection consists primarily of materials on the Underground Railroad, African-American heroes, and African-American pioneers in medicine.

1.8 cu. ft.

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7755252

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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Falk, Leslie A.

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Born in 1915, Leslie A. Falk attend Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and obtained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. He was a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights and served as its first field secretary in Mississippi. After a medical career in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee, he studied African-American history in his retirement. From the description of Falk (Leslie A.) African American history research collection, 1842-1999. (Unive...

Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)

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Purpose of organization was to recruit health care personnel and supplies for civil rights workers who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and for local black residents. From the description of Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) records, 1964-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122532014 From the guide to the Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) records, 1964-1966, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, M...

University of Southern Mississippi

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