Film Screening - The Color of Medicine

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The Color of Medicine is a documentary capturing the history of medical training of African Americans at Homer G. Phillips Hospital by Joyce Marie Fitzpatrick & Brian Shackelford.

Dr. Earle U. Robinson Jr., a 2nd generation physician and alumnus, whose father was one of the first 27 interns to graduate from Homer G. Phillips, shares his personal story and the significance of the Homer G. Phillips hospital's valuable part in African American history. The story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital which provided state-of-the-art medical training to over two-thirds of all African American physicians and nurses from 1937 to 1979. While its founder was mysteriously killed, the hospital in his name thrived during the most turbulent of segregated times, allowing so many people of color to achieve greatness for the benefit of humankind.

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