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From Cotton Fields to Medicine
Early Life and Education
At the age of forty-four, my mother set out to accomplish what no other American woman of color had achieved at her age—to graduate and receive a doctorate of medicine and surgery from the Universite Lobre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Childhood and Determination
She walked two and a half miles daily from the cotton fields to a one-room school that housed grades one through seven taught by one teacher. But it was her thirst of knowledge that would sustain her and carry her to a great adventure across the Atlantic.
Inspiration
We hope that the content of these pages will inspire many other young persons to strive and become whatever they wish to become, overcoming any obstacles and defying all odds.
