Leonidas H. Berry papers, 1879-1994.

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Leonidas H. Berry papers, 1879-1994.

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Biographical materials, correspondence, reports, published articles, newsletters, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, administrative documents, and other papers of Leonidas H. Berry, a Chicago African American gastroenterologist. The materials relate to various aspects of Berry's career, including the establishment and progress of his narcotics clinics; his work at Provident, Michael Reese, and Cook County hospitals; and his tenure as professor at the Cook County Graduate School of Medicine. Also present are documents pertaining to Berry's administration of the Cook County Physicians Association, the National Medical Association, and the Flying Black Medics. Some materials pertain to Berry's family history and the African Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Berry was an active member.

5.75 linear ft. (11 boxes)

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National Medical Association (U.S.)

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Berry family.

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Michael Reese Hospital

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Cook County Physicians Association (Ill.)

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Berry, Llewellyn L. (Llewellyn Longfellow), 1876-1954

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Reverend Dr. Llewellyn L. Berry was born in 1876 in Hampton, Virginia. His parents, John and Nancy Berry were among the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Virginia. Berry was educated at Hampton Institute. Kittrel College, and Wilberforce University, where he received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1936. From approximately 1908 until 1933, Berry was pastor at several A.M.E. churches in North Carolina and Virginia. During this period, his skills ...

Cook County Hospital (Chicago, Ill.)

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Cook County Graduate School of Medicine (Chicago, Ill.)

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Provident Hospital (Chicago, Ill.)

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Illinois. Dept. of Public Health.

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Berry, Leonidas H

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Leonidas H. Berry was a an African-American gastroenterologist from Chicago, Ill. He served on the staffs of the Michael Reese Hospital, Provident Hospital, and the University of Illinois Medical School. He was an official of the National Medical Association. In addition to his long and distinguished medical career, Dr. Berry has been active in teaching, writing, and community public service. The latter has included work in civil rights, on the racial problems of public health, and with the Afri...

African Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventh Episcopal District

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Organized in 1816 from a congregation formed by a group of blacks who withdrew in 1787 from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia because of discrimination; Richard Allen was consecrated the first bishop in 1816. From the description of African Methodist Episcopal Church collection, 1914-1971 (bulk 1950-1971). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962830 ...

Berry, Beulah Harris, 1879-1960.

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Wilberforce University

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Wilberforce University has its beginnings in a 28 Sept. 1853 meeting, during which the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church agreed to fund a coeducational college for African-American people of the state to be called Ohio African University and to be located in Tawas Springs, Ohio. Chartered as Wilberforce University in 1856, enrollment reached 207 people, and second year collegiate instruction was offered. Because of financial difficulties due to the Civil War (1861-1865), th...