Smith returned to practice in New York as the first African-American doctor to be university-trained.
There are few African-American doctors relative to the nation's black population.
Smith's unique achievements as a pioneering African-American doctor were rediscovered by twentieth-century historians.
Home to many African-American doctors, lawyers, teachers and other professionals, the community is sometimes called "the black Beverly Hills."
Griffin's husband, an African-American doctor, was the attending physician at the birth of two of Hansen's children.
The group quickly went into action working to recruit an African-American doctor to live and work in the black community of Bartlesville.
The film tells the story of two teenage brothers and an African-American doctor.
The clinic was directed by a 15-member advisory board consisting of African-American doctors, nurses, clergy, journalists, and social workers.
Meharry is the second largest educator of African-American medical doctors and dentists in the United States.
But she was falling for an African-American doctor.