Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863-1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacked against an African American of this era, he pursued an education, alternating between work on the family farm and attending school. Moore originally dreamed of becoming an educator and attended notable teacher training schools in the state. But later, while at Shaw University, he followed another passion and entered Leonard Medical School. Dr. Moore graduated with honors in 1888 and became the first practicing African American physician in the city of Durham, North Carolina. He went on to establish the Durham Drug Company and the Durham Colored Library; spearhead and run Lincoln Hospital, the city's first secular, freestanding African American hospital; cofound North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; help launch Rosenwald schools for African American children statewide; and foster the development of Durham's Hayti community. Dr. Moore was one-third of the mighty "Triumvirate" alongside John Merrick and C. C. Spaulding, credited with establishing Durham as the capital of the African American middle class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founding Durham's famed Black Wall Street. His legacy can still be seen on the city streets and country backroads today, and an examination of his life provides key insights into the history of Durham, the state, and the nation during Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow Era.
...More
Book
Johnson, Lenworth N.;
Daniels, O. C. Bobby;
(2002)
Breaking the Color Line in Medicine: African Americans in Ophthalmology
(/isis/citation/CBB000301576/)
Book
Ridlon, Florence;
(2005)
A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D.
(/isis/citation/CBB000550078/)
Book
Ward, Thomas J., Jr.;
(2003)
Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South
(/isis/citation/CBB000630043/)
Article
Pohl, Lynn Marie;
(2012)
African American Southerners and White Physicians: Medical Care at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB001251109/)
Thesis
Roberts, Samuel Kelton;
(2002)
Infectious fear: Tuberculosis, public health, and the logic of race and illness in Baltimore, Maryland, 1880--1930
(/isis/citation/CBB001562176/)
Book
Richard D. deShazo;
(2018)
The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care
(/isis/citation/CBB838589266/)
Article
Pearson, Reggie L.;
(2002)
“There Are Many Sick, Feeble, and Suffering Freemen”: The Freedmen's Health Care Activities during Reconstruction in North Carolina, 1865--1868
(/isis/citation/CBB000202352/)
Article
Baker, Robert B.;
Washington, Harriet A.;
Olakanmi, Ololade;
Savitt, Todd L.;
Jacobs, Elizabeth A.;
Hoover, Eddie;
Wynia, Matthew K.;
(2008)
African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1846--1968: Origins of a Racial Divide
(/isis/citation/CBB001032031/)
Article
Baker, Robert B.;
Washington, Harriet A.;
Olakanmi, Ololade;
Savitt, Todd L.;
Jacobs, Elizabeth A.;
Hoover, Eddie;
Wynia, Matthew K.;
(2009)
Creating a Segregated Medical Profession: African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1846--1910
(/isis/citation/CBB001032032/)
Article
Benjamin Baker;
(2020)
Death by Wasting Away: The Life, Last Days, and Legacy of Lucy Byard
(/isis/citation/CBB026389352/)
Book
Nelson, Alondra;
(2011)
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
(/isis/citation/CBB001251125/)
Thesis
Pearson, Reggie L.;
(2004)
Crucible of Change: Black Health Care in the Urban South, 1910--1954
(/isis/citation/CBB001562065/)
Article
Segrest, Mab;
(2014)
Exalted on the Ward: “Mary Roberts,” the Georgia State Sanitarium, and the Psychiatric “Speciality” of Race
(/isis/citation/CBB001201824/)
Article
Craven, Christa;
Glatzel, Mara;
(2010)
Downplaying Difference: Historical Accounts of African American Midwives and Contemporary Struggles for Midwifery
(/isis/citation/CBB001202005/)
Article
Mawdsley, Stephen E.;
(2010)
“Dancing on Eggs”: Charles H. Bynum, Racial Politics, and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1938--1954
(/isis/citation/CBB001031257/)
Book
Savitt, Todd Lee;
(2007)
Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America
(/isis/citation/CBB000772267/)
Book
Cervetti, Nancy;
(2012)
S. Weir Mitchell, 1829--1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician
(/isis/citation/CBB001252876/)
Book
McBride, David;
(2002)
Missions for Science: U. S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World
(/isis/citation/CBB000301936/)
Article
Summers, Martin;
(2010)
“Suitable Care of the African When Afflicted With Insanity”: Race, Madness, and Social Order in Comparative Perspective
(/isis/citation/CBB001020993/)
Thesis
Jazmin Antwynette Evans;
(2019)
Scientific Racism's Role in the Social Thought of African Intellectual, Moral, and Physical Inferiority
(/isis/citation/CBB578195827/)
Be the first to comment!