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by Jae Jones - February 8, 2023 1 0

Dr. Edith Irby Jones was the first African-American student to attend the University of Arkansas School of Medicine (now the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences). In 1948, Jones became the first black student to attend a racially mixed school in the south. When she enrolled in a segregated southern medical school she made news headlines ...

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