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    First African-American person to attend all-white medical school in the South dies in Houston
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    • Jan 22, 2020

    First African-American person to attend all-white medical school in the South dies in Houston

    HOUSTON — The first black person to attend and graduate from the University of Arkansas Medical School, and the first black woman to intern at a Baylor College of Medicine-affiliated hospital has died in Houston. She was 91. Dr. Edith Irby Jones’ family told FOX 26 her love for medicine stemmed from losing her 12-year-old sister at the age of eight to typhoid fever, and suffering from rheumatic fever herself as a child. She graduated from Knoxville College, and in 1948, she b

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