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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Collection Summary
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Restrictions
Series Descriptions
Biographical Information, 1907-1983
Photographs, 1907-1977
General Correspondence, 1907-1977
Organizations, Associations, and Corporations, 1946-1988
Publications, 1931-1984
Manuscripts and Lectures, 1931-1980
American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority, 1940-1970
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
Processed by HMD Staff; Processing completed June 1986; additional revisions made in 1991
Encoded by Dan Jenkins, Electronic Scriptorium
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| Collection Number: | MS C 423 |
| Creator: | Berry, Leonidas H. |
| Title: | Leonidas H. Berry Papers
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| Dates: | 1907-1982 |
| Quantity: | 4.6 linear feet (11 boxes) |
| Abstract: | The collection includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, publications, and lectures. In addition to his long and distinguished medical career as a pioneering gastroenterologist and influential African-American physician, Dr. Berry was active in teaching, writing, and community public service. |
Leonidas Harris Berry, M.D., was born on 20 July 1902 in Woodsdale, North Carolina. After graduating from Wilberforce University in 1924, Dr. Berry moved to Chicago where he received a second B.S. degree from the University of Chicago, followed by a M.D. degree from the Rush Medical College of the University. In 1933, he also received a M.S. degree in Pathology from the University of Illinois Medical School.
After receiving his medical degree, Dr. Berry worked briefly at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C., and then at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois where he specialized in gastroenterology. Dr. Berry has lived in Chicago since his return in 1931, working in addition at the Michael Reese Hospital, Provident Hospital, and the University of Illinois Medical School.
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 African Methodist Episcopal Church. Further biographical information on Dr. Berry can be found in his 1981 family history/autobiography, "I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey," found in the reading room of the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division.
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Dr. Berry's papers, which he gave to the National Library of Medicine in 1986, center on Dr. Berry's active professional and civic life. While the earliest copies of family material date from the 1890s, the bulk of the collection dates from the 1950s. Included are correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, publications, and lectures. Especially well documented are Dr. Berry's professional and community activities. Material on his work with drug abusers is found in the records of his tenure as president of the Cook County Physicians Association, at which time he developed and instituted the "Berry Plan" for the treatment of narcotics users. Berry's concern for the health needs of minorities is reflected in the records relating to the Chicago Commission on Human Rights, the Medical Forum Group, and in the folders on the African Methodist Episcopal Church, whose Health Commission Berry headed. In the latter capacity he helped organized the "Flying Medics," a group of black physician who went to Cairo, Illinois in 1970 to address that community's medical needs. In 1965-66 Berry served as the president of the National Medical Association. His files from his presidency are found throughout the collection. They address the wide range of issues of interest to African American physicians at a time when civil rights were of mounting national concern. Of particular interest are the records relating to the integration of minority physicians into mainstream medical organizations and institutions, an event also documented in the records of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
Rounding out the collection are records relating to Dr. Berry's involvement with professional gastroenterological groups, correspondence and reviews about his publications, and material used in the preparation of his autobiography. Except for a collection of typescripts, there is little material on Dr. Berry's research or his patients. Dr. Berry did make many films demonstrating the use of the Berry endoscope; many of these are found in HMD's historical audiovisual collection. Berry's instruments are housed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
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Restrictions
Restrictions
Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.
Copyright
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| These terms are indexed in the National Library of Medicine's online catalog LocatorPlus. Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the catalog using these terms. |
| MeSH Subjects |
| | Afro-American physicians |
| | Afro-Americans in medicine -- history |
| | Drug abuse |
| | Gastroenterology |
| | Gastroscopy |
| | Public health |
| Corporate Names |
| | Chicago Commission on Human Relations |
| | Michael Reese Hospital |
| | National Medical Association (U.S.) |
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Berry, Leonidas H. Leonidas H. Berry papers. 1907-1982. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.; MS C 423.
The collection was donated by Dr. Berry in 1986.
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Biographical Information, 1907-1983
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| 1 | 1 | Biography: curriculam vita |
| 1 | 2 | Biography: articles and clippings |
| 1 | 3 | Biography: DuSable Museum, Chicago |
| | Autobiography: I wouldn't take nothin' for my journey |
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| 1 | 4 | | Reviews 1981-1983 |
| 1 | 5 | | Miscellaneous notes |
| 1 | 6 | | Miscellaneous notes: photocopied documents |
| 1 | 7 | | Miscellaneous notes: L.L. Berry's 50th wedding anniversary |
| 1 | 8 | | Miscellaneous notes: Ruth L. Traynham |
| 1 | 9 | | Early drafts |
| 1 | 10 | | Correspondence, 1922-1981 |
| 1 | 11 | | Correspondence with Gladys Berry, 1956-1978 |
| 1 | 12 | Awards |
| 1 | 13 | | Photographs of diplomas, awards, and plaques |
| 1 | 14 | Congratulatory letters |
| 1 | 15 | Family correspondence, 1963-1971 |
| 1 | 16 | Trip to Africa, 1965 |
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Photographs, 1907-1977
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| 1 | 17 | Family portrait (Berry at age 3), 1907 |
| 1 | 18 | Illinois National Guard, 8th Infantry, Regimental Medical Staff, Camp, Grant, Illinois, 1932 |
| | | (Pictured: J.M. Allison, M.D.; J.L. Hall, M.D.; William Dawson, M.D.; J.F. Lawson, M.D.; P. Taneil, D.D.S.; Capt. Lodres (?); L.T. Berry) |
| 1 | 19 | Berry introducing early model of semi-flexible gastroscope, National Medical Association Convention, Harelm Hospital, August, 1939 |
| 1 | 20 | Pan-American Gastroenterology Congress, Sanitago, Chile, 1960 |
| 1 | 21 | Berry and residents, Cook County Graduate School of Medicine and Cook County Hospital, 1960-1970 |
| 1 | 22 | Berry biopsy instrument, [n.d.] |
| 11 | 1-2 | Gastroscope negatives, illustrating various symptoms and diseases, 1967-1970 |
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General Correspondence, 1907-1977
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| 2 | 1 | Unidentified A-B |
| 2 | 2 | C |
| 2 | 3 | D-E |
| 2 | 4 | F |
| 2 | 5 | G |
| 2 | 6 | Hal - Hei |
| 2 | 7 | Hil - I |
| 2 | 8 | J |
| 2 | 9 | K |
| 2 | 10 | L |
| 2 | 11 | Mah-Mc |
| 2 | 12 | Meh-Muh |
| 2 | 13 | N-P |
| 2 | 14 | Q-R |
| 2 | 15 | Sam-Smi |
| 2 | 16 | Spe-Swo |
| 2 | 17 | T-U |
| 2 | 18 | V-Y |
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Organizations, Associations, and Corporations, 1946-1988
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| 2 | 19 | Miscellaneous organizations: A-B |
| 2 | 20 | Miscellaneous organizations: C |
| 2 | 21 | Miscellaneous organizations: D-H |
| 2 | 22 | Miscellaneous organizations: I-M |
| 2 | 23 | Miscellaneous organizations: N-P |
| 2 | 24 | Miscellaneous organizations: Q-T |
| 2 | 25 | Miscellaneous organizations: U-Z |
| 3 | 1 | African Methodist Episcopal Church 1960-1975 |
| 3 | 2 | African Methodist Episcopal Church 1978 |
| 3 | 3 | | Flying Black Medics - Cairo, Ilinois 1969-1977 |
| 3 | 4 | | Flying Black Medics - Cairo, Illinois: Correspondence 1970 |
| 3 | 5 | | Photograph - "Flying Black Medics," 1970 |
| 3 | 6 | American College of Gastroenterology 1953-1955 |
| 3 | 7 | American College of Gastroenterology 1956-1960 |
| 3 | 8 | American College of Gastroenterology 1961-1974 |
| 3 | 9 | American College of Gastroenterology 1988 |
| 3 | 10 | American College of Physicians, 1951-1969 |
| 3 | 11 | American College of Physicians, 1971-1979 |
| 3 | `2 | American Cystoscope Makers, Inc., 1969-1977 |
| 3 | 13 | American Gastroenterological Association, 1946-1973 |
| 3 | 14 | The American Gastroscopic Society, 1950-1974 |
| 3 | 15 | American Medical Association, 1956-1966 |
| 3 | 16 | American Medical Association, 1966-1968 |
| 3 | 17 | American Public Health Association, 1965-1969 |
| 3 | 18 | The American Society of Abdominal Surgeons, 1965-1966 |
| | American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 1959-1981 |
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| 3 | 19 | | 1959-1969 |
| 3 | 20 | | 1972-1976 |
| 3 | 21 | | 1979; 1981 |
| 3 | 22 | | Workshop: Future developments in G.I. endoscopy, 1973 |
| 3 | 23 | | Rudolph Schindler Award (includes photo), 1977 |
| 3 | 24 | Association des Societies Nationales...de Gastro-Enterologie, 1954 |
| 3 | 25 | Association of Former Interns and Residents of Freedmen's Hospital, 1951-1969 |
| | Berry Society for Digestive Disease (see Leonidas Berry Society for Digestive Diseases) |
| 4 | 1 | Chicago Commission on Human Relations, 1956 |
| 4 | 2 | Chicago Commission on Human Relations, 1957-1959 |
| 4 | 3 | Chicago Commission on Human Relations, 1960-1962 |
| 4 | 4 | Chicago Commission on Human Relations, 1962 |
| 4 | 5 | Chicago Commission on Human Relations, 1963 |
| 4 | 6 | Chicago Commission on Human Relations, 1964 |
| 4 | 7 | Chicago Commission on Human Relations, 1965-1966 |
| 4 | 8 | | Annual Report, 1962 |
| 4 | 9 | | Bulletins, 1961-1964 |
| 4 | 10 | Chicago Council for Biomedical Careers, 1968-1981 |
| 4 | 11 | | Chicago Medical Society, 1950; 1963-1975 |
| 4 | 12 | | Membership Cards, 1936-1948 |
| 4 | 13 | Chicago Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 1977; 1983-1984 |
| 4 | 14 | Cleveland Clinic, 1966-1967 |
| 4 | 15 | Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, 1956-1972 |
| 4 | 16 | Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, 1973-1974 |
| 4 | 17 | Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, 1988 |
| 4 | 18 | | Commuter Course, 1971-1972 |
| 4 | 19 | Cook County Health and Hospitals Governing Commission, 1970-1976 |
| 4 | 20 | | 1977-1978 |
| 4 | 21 | Cook County Hospital, 1947; 1956-1976 |
| | Cook County Physician's Association, 1951-1973 |
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| 4 | 22 | | 1951 |
| 4 | 23 | | 1952-1955 |
| 4 | 24 | | 1956 |
| 4 | 25 | | 1957 |
| 4 | 26 | | 1958 |
| 4 | 27 | | 1960-1962 |
| 4 | 28 | | 1965-1966 |
| 4 | 29 | | Notes on Clinic Program, c. 1959? |
| 4 | 30 | | Clinic correspondence, 1959 |
| 5 | 1 | Dallas County Medical Society, 1963-1968 |
| 5 | 2 | Howard University, 1947-1977 |
| 5 | 3 | Howard University Pre-clinical Medical Building, dedication cermony, 9/15/1958 |
| 5 | 4 | Illinois. Governor's High Blood Pressure Advisory Board, 1982 |
| 5 | 5 | Illinois Regional Medical Program, 1966-1968 |
| 5 | 6 | Illinois Regional Medical Program, 1969 |
| 5 | 7 | Illinois Regional Medical Program, 1970-1971 |
| 5 | 8 | Indian Society of Gastroenterology/Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India, 1970-1977 |
| 5 | 9 | International Society of Endoscopy: Congress, 1st, 1966 |
| 5 | 10 | International Society of Endoscopy: Congresses, 1970-1974 |
| 5 | 11 | Leonidas Berry Society of Digestive Diseases, 1982-1987 |
| 5 | 12 | Medical Committee for Human Rights, 1964 |
| 5 | 13 | Medical Committee for Human Rights, Jan. - June 1965 |
| 5 | 14 | Medical Committee for Human Rights, July - Dec. 1965 |
| 5 | 15 | Medical Committe for Human Rights, 1966 |
| 5 | 16 | Medical Committee for Human Rights, 1967 |
| 5 | 17 | Newsletters, clipping, and misc. printed matter, 1964-1965 |
| 5 | 18 | Medical Forum Group, Feb. - June 1962 |
| 5 | 19 | Medical Forum Group, Sept. - Dec. 1962 |
| 5 | 20 | Medical Forum Group, Jan. - Feb. 1963 |
| 5 | 21 | Medical Forum Group, Mar. - July 1963 |
| 5 | 22 | Medical Forum Group, 1964-1972 |
| 5 | 23 | | Clippings, 1963 |
| 6 | 1 | Michael Reese Hospital, 1960-1978 |
| 6 | 2 | | Harassments, 1964-1982 |
| 6 | 3 | | Trustee Board, 1960-1964 |
| 6 | 4 | | Trustee Board, 1966-1981 |
| 6 | 5 | National Advisory Committee on Regional Medical Programs, 1965-1966 |
| 6 | 6 | National Advisory Committee on Regional Medical Programs, 1967-1968 |
| 6 | 7 | National Advisory Committee on Regional Medical Programs, 1971 |
| 6 | 8 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 154; 1964-1971 |
| 6 | 9 | National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, 1966-1967 |
| 6 | 10 | National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, 1967-1968 |
| 6 | 11 | National Institutes of Mental Health: History of Drug Addiction Conference (includes photo), 1958 |
| | National Medical Association, 1947-1978 |
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| 6 | 12 | | Distinguished Service Award, 1958 |
| 6 | 13 | | Correspondence, 1947-1961 |
| 6 | 14 | | Correspondence, 1962 |
| 6 | 15 | | Correspondence, 1963 |
| 6 | 16 | | Correspondence, Jan. - Aug. 1964 |
| 6 | 17 | | Correspondence, Sept. 1964 |
| 6 | 18 | | Correspondence, Oct. - Dec. 1964 |
| 6 | 19 | | Correspondence, Jan. - Feb. 1965 |
| 6 | 20 | | Correspondence, March 1965 |
| 6 | 21 | | Correspondence, April - May 1965 |
| 6 | 22 | | Correspondence, June 1965 |
| 6 | 23 | | Correspondence, July 1965 |
| 6 | 24 | | Correspondence, Aug. 2-10, 1965 |
| 6 | 25 | | Correspondence, August 1965 |
| 7 | 1 | | Correspondence, Sept. 1965 |
| 7 | 2 | | Correspondence, Oct. 1965 |
| 7 | 3 | | Correspondence, Nov. - Dec. 1965 |
| 7 | 4 | | Correspondence, Jan. 1966 |
| 7 | 5 | | Correspondence, Feb. - Mar. 1966 |
| 7 | 6 | | Correspondence, Apr. - May 1966 |
| 7 | 7 | | Correspondence, June - July 1966 |
| 7 | 8 | | Correspondence, Aug. - Dec. 1966 |
| 7 | 9 | | Correspondence, 1967-1974 |
| 7 | 10 | | Correspondence, 1980 |
| 7 | 11 | | Congratulatory telegrams, August 1965 |
| 7 | 12 | | Annual convention, 1965-1981 |
| 7 | 13 | | Convention - University of Chicago Medical Alumni Reunion, 1965 |
| 7 | 14 | | Membership applications, June - Oct. 1965 |
| 7 | 15 | | Membership applications, Nov. 1965 - Jan. 1966 |
| 7 | 16 | | Membership, 1965 |
| 7 | 17 | | Membership, 1966 |
| 7 | 18 | | [folder number not used] |
| 7 | 19 | | NMA-AMA Liaison Committee, 1965 |
| 7 | 20 | | NMA-AMA Liaison Committee, 1966 |
| 7 | 21 | | NMA-AMA Liaison Committee, 1969 |
| 7 | 22 | | NMA-AMA Liaison Committee: Meeting Agenda, 18 May 1969 |
| 7 | 23 | | NMA-AMA Liaison Committee, 1985 |
| 7 | 24 | | Past President's Council : Minutes, 1977-1978 |
| 7 | 25 | | President's Column and Reports, 1965 |
| 7 | 26 | | President's Newsletters, 1965-1966 |
| 7 | 27 | | Speeches, 1963-1966 |
| 7 | 28 | N.Y. Academy of Medicine: Drug Addiction Among Adolescents, 1952 |
| | Ojike Memorial Center (see United States Nigerian Foundation - Ojike Memorial Center), |
| 7 | 29 | Olympus Corporation, 1958-1970 |
| 8 | 1 | Presbyterian - St. Luke's Hospital, 1969-1972 |
| 8 | 2 | Provident Hospital, 1946; 1956-1969 |
| 8 | 3 | Provident Hospital: Medical Conferences & Case Presentation, 1947-1948 |
| 8 | 4 | A.H. Robins Inc., 1961-1969 |
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| 8 | 5 | United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965-1975 |
| 8 | 6 | United States Department of State, 1958-1965 |
| 8 | 7 | United States Department of State, 1965-1966 |
| 8 | 8 | United States Department of State, 1970-1972 |
| 8 | 9 | United States Nigerian Foundation - Ojike Memorial Center, 1961-1966 |
| 8 | 10 | University of Chicago, 1963 |
| 8 | 11 | University of Chicago Alumni Association, 1964-1968 |
| 8 | 12 | University of Chicago Alumni Association, 1969-1978 |
| 8 | 13 | University of Chicago Medical Alumni Association, 1979 |
| 8 | 14 | University of Illinois, 1966-1971 |
| 8 | 15 | White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse, 1962 |
| 8 | 16 | White House Conference on Health, July- Dec. 1965 |
| 8 | 17 | White House Conference on Health, November 1965 |
| 8 | 18 | White House Conference on Health, November 1965 |
| 8 | 19 | White House Conference on Health, 1966 |
| 8 | 20 | Wilberforce University, 1965-1970 |
| 8 | 21 | | Alumni Address, June 1940 |
| 8 | 22 | World Congress of Gastroenterology (includes photos of Berry & I.H. Robins; 1954 Congress; 1966 Congress), 1958; 1966; 1970 |
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Publications, 1931-1984
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| 9 | 1 | Correspondence, 1947; 1956-1964 |
| 9 | 2 | Correspondence, 1965-1967 |
| 9 | 3 | Correspondence, 1968-1970 |
| 9 | 4 | Correspondence, 1975 |
| 9 | 5 | Correspondence, 1978 |
| | Gastrointestinal pan-endoscopy, 1974 |
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| 9 | 6 | | Correspondence with Charles C. Thomas, Inc., 1970-1972 |
| 9 | 7 | | Correspondence with Charles C. Thomas, Inc., Jan - May 1973 |
| 9 | 8 | | Correspondence with Charles C. Thomas, Inc., June - Dec. 1973 |
| 9 | 9 | | Correspondence with Charles C. Thomas, Inc. , Jan. - June 1974 |
| 9 | 10 | | Correspondence with Charles C. Thomas, Inc. , 1974-1979 |
| 9 | 11 | | Subvention correspondence, 1971-1973 |
| 9 | 12 | | Correspondence with co-authors, 1971-1974 |
| 9 | 13 | | Co-author's cocktail party, Mexico City, 1974 |
| 9 | 14 | | Reviews, 1974-1976 |
| 9 | 15 | | | Congratulatory letters, 1973-1982 |
| | Clinical Significance of gastroinestinal endoscopy, 1978-1985 |
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| 9 | 16 | | Correspondence, 1975-1981 |
| 9 | 17 | | Correspondence, 1980-1984 |
| | Reprints, 1935-1984 |
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| 9 | 18 | | 1935-1952 |
| 9 | 19 | | 1954-1958 |
| 9 | 20 | | 1963-1973 |
| 9 | 21 | | 1974-1983 |
| 9 | 22 | | 1984 |
| 9 | 23 | | Requests for reprints, 1935-1949 |
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Manuscripts and Lectures, 1931-1980
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| | Gastrointestinal manuscripts and lectures, 1931-1980 |
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| 9 | 24 | | Undated |
| 9 | 25 | | 1931-1937 |
| 9 | 26 | | 1938 |
| 9 | 27 | | 1940 |
| 10 | 1 | | 1941-1944 |
| 10 | 2 | | 1951-1959 |
| 10 | 3 | | 1962-1966 |
| 10 | 4 | | 1967-1969 |
| 10 | 5 | | 1974-1975 |
| 10 | 6 | | 1976-1978 |
| 10 | 7 | | 1980 |
| 10 | 8 | Medical and social manuscripts and lectures, 1960-1965 |
| 10 | 9 | Medical and social manuscripts and lectures, 1966-1967 |
| 10 | 10 | Medical and social manuscripts and lectures, 1980-1987 |
| 10 | 11 | Medical and social manuscripts and lectures, 1974 |
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American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority, 1940-1970
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| 10 | 12 | Bibliographies |
| 10 | 13 | Bibliographies |
| 10 | 14 | Correspondence, 1960-1961 |
| 10 | 15 | Correspondence, 1962 |
| 10 | 16 | Correspondence, 1963 |
| 10 | 17 | Exhibit undated |
| 10 | 18 | Exhibit, 1951 |
| 10 | 19 | Exhibit, 1961 |
| 10 | 20 | Exhibit, 1962 |
| 10 | 21 | Exhibit, 1963 |
| 10 | 22 | Exhibit/Program, 1963 |
| 10 | 23 | Howard University, 1958 |
| 10 | 24 | Howard University, 1959 |
| 10 | 25 | Negroes in Medicine - American, [n.d.] |
| 10 | 26 | Negroes in Medicine - American, [n.d.] |
| 10 | 27 | Exhibits on Negroe Nurses and Dentists, 1942-1970 |
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