- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 58 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Professor and physician Dr. Robert L. Smith was born on December 20, 1936 in Terry, Mississippi. He received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Tougaloo College in 1957 and his M.D. degree from Howard University in 1961. In 1963, Smith founded the Mississippi Family Health Center. During Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964, Smith worked with the Medical Committee for Human Rights to provide medical services for civil rights workers in Jackson. Smith served as an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, as well as professor emeritus in the department of community medicine at Brown University. In 2014, Smith received the Community Service Award from the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the State of Institutions of Higher Learning, and was also named Diversity Educator of the Year. In 2017, the American Medical Association presented Smith with its Medal of Valor Award.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Dr. Robert L. Smith
- Dr. Robert L. Smith
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1083205206
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Robert L. Smith.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
015855
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Randall Pinkston, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Jackson, Mississippi 2017 December 13.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Professor Physician.
- Added Author
Smith, Robert L., 1936- interviewee.
Pinkston, Randall, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.