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Edith Irby Jones and medical education

Arkansas and Houston · internal medicine

Edith Irby Jones, MD

In 1948, Jones became the first Black student admitted to the University of Arkansas medical school. She later practiced internal medicine in Houston. In 1985 she became the first woman elected president of the National Medical Association, an organization founded by Black physicians.

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