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Under the knife : how a wealthy Negro surgeon wielded power in the Jim Crow South

Title
Under the knife : how a wealthy Negro surgeon wielded power in the Jim Crow South / Hugh Pearson.
Author
Pearson, Hugh.
Publication
New York : Free Press, 2000.

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Description
249 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
The author investigates how his great-uncle and other family members overcame the racist society of rural Georgia.
Subject
  • Griffin, Joseph Howard, 1888-1980
  • Pearson family
  • Griffin, Joseph Howard, 1888-
  • Griffin, Joseph Howard, 1888-1980
  • Pearson family
  • 1900-1999
  • African American surgeons > Georgia > Bainbridge > Biography
  • African Americans > Civil rights > History > Georgia > 20th century
  • African Americans
  • Surgery
  • Black or African American
  • General Surgery
  • Race Relations
  • African American
  • surgery (health care function)
  • Surgery
  • African Americans
  • African American surgeons
  • African Americans > Civil rights
  • Race relations
  • African American surgeons > Georgia > Bainbridge > Biography
  • African Americans > Civil rights > History > Georgia > 20th century
  • Bainbridge (Ga.) > Race relations
  • Bainbridge (Ga.) > Biography
  • Georgia > Race relations
  • Georgia
  • Georgia > Bainbridge
  • Bainbridge (Ga.) > Biography
  • Bainbridge (Ga.) > Race relations
  • Georgia > Race relations
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • History
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245).
ISBN
  • 0684846519
  • 9780684846514
LCCN
99039636
OCLC
  • ocm42002587
  • 42002587
  • SCSB-961971
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library