Under the Knife
How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7721936M
- ISBN-139780684846514
- ISBN-100684846519
- OCLC Control Number42002587
- OCLC Control Numberunderknife00hugh
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99039636
- Goodreads1142905
- LibraryThing1716443
Classifications
- LCCF294.B35 P43 2000
Description
"Hugh Pearson grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, encouraged by his parents to believe that nothing was beyond his reach. If he needed any further inspiration, he could look to his great-uncle, Dr. Joseph Griffin. Although Griffin had stayed in the Deep South, he managed to become a pillar of his community at a time when Afro-Americans - then called Negroes - rarely prospered. He became the first Negro surgeon in south Georgia, donating millions of dollars to Afro-American institutions and building the largest private hospital for Afro-Americans in the state." "With Under the Knife, Hugh Pearson brings to life the pains and triumphs, as well as the ambiguities and fortitude, involved in the rise of middle-class and wealthy Afro-Americans, and restores the true legacy of an overlooked and oversimplified part of the American experience."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
An October evening in 1996, and I am tired of shouldering a lot of heavy negative racial baggage.
Excerpt
An October evening in 1996, and I am tired of shouldering a lot of heavy negative racial baggage.
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