The Leonard Medical School
Above and Beyond: A Celebration of the Legacies of the Leonard Graduates
Monday, February 26, 2007
Tompkins-McCaw Library, Distance Education, Rm. 2-010
509 North 12th Street
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
This presentation will chronicle the legacies of the graduates of the Leonard Medical School, a former department of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Leonard Medical School was one of fourteen medical schools founded in the United States between 1868 and 1900 dedicated to the education of African-Americans. Over its 36-year history, Leonard graduated almost 400 physicians. Founded in 1882, Leonard, like its sister black medical schools, struggled to survive financially as it tried to keep up with changes in medical education and medical science during the late nineteenth century. Race issues added an extra burden. Only two African-American medical schools, Meharry University and Howard University, survived after 1923. The graduates of Leonard Medical School went on to contribute in medicine in Virginia and other states. This lecture will discuss Leonard's founding and the contribution of the graduates to the medical community in Virginia and other states. Leonard Medical School finally closed its doors in 1918.
--Irene Lubker, Research Librarian and Interim Head of User Services - Tompkins McCaw Library for the Health Sciences.
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