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When Arthur Brown was preparing to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1891, he heard stories of how difficult it was for a Black doctor to get a medical license in Alabama.
Intrigued by the challenge, Brown moved to Birmingham, took the exam and made the highest score recorded to that date. He opened a practice in Bessemer.
After the end of the Civil War, the state began licensing Black people as physicians.
Dr. Cornelius Dorsette is frequently identified as Alabama’s first Black doctor.
A former classmate, Booker T. Washington, convinced him to come to Alabama in 1883, writing that Dr. Dorsette might make as much as $2,000 a year in Montgomery.
When Washington convinced a Black woman, Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson, to come and work in Tuskegee, it was Dorsette that prepared her for the state’s eight day medical exam.
Dr. Johnson passed and became the first woman white or Black to be licensed as a physician in Alabama.
In addition to serving in medicine, Alabama’s first Black doctors were educators, opening their homes as libraries, and used their earnings to open banks for the Black community. They preached in the state’s most historic Black churches and built homes that were the pride of their cities.
These are the stories of some of Alabama’s first Black doctors and their lasting contributions to medicine and their communities:
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