Edith Irby Jones, Pioneering Black Doctor in the South, Dies at 91
Edith Mae Irby was about 7 years old in the early 1930s when her older siblings contracted typhoid fever in their little house in Conway, Ark. Her brother Robert recovered, but her sister, Juanita, died. Edith could never shake the awful sense that Juanita had received substandard care because her family was poor. She recalled…
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