Claim: Edith Jones, who integrated southern medical schools, dies.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Edith Irby Jones
text: Edith Irby Jones Edith Irby Jones (born December 23, 1927) is an American physician who was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas Medical School and the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first black intern in the state of Arkansas, and later first black intern at Baylor College of Medicine. Jones was the first woman president of the National Medical Association. She has been honored by many awards, including induction into

title: Edith Irby Jones
text: her service in 2015. Two international hospitals also are named in her honor: Dr. Edith Irby Jones Clinic in Vaudreuil, Haiti, which she helped found in 1991, and the Dr. Edith Irby Jones Emergency Clinic in Veracruz, Mexico. Edith Irby Jones Edith Irby Jones (born December 23, 1927) is an American physician who was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas Medical School and the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first

title: Edith Irby Jones
text: Mary Holmes College (1989), Lindenwood College (1991), and Knoxville College (1992); Southeast Memorial Hospital renamed its ambulatory center in her honor (1998); recipient of the 2001 Oscar E. Edwards Memorial Award for Volunteerism and Community Service from the American College of Physicians; inducted into the University of Arkansas College of Medicine Hall of Fame (2004); US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee nominated Jones as a Local Legend for the National Library of Medicine; induction into the inaugural class of women honored by the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame in 2015; and received a commendation from the Texas House of Representatives for

title: Edith Irby Jones
text: trips with teams of workers from the NAACP to enroll members for the organization. She graduated with her BS from Knoxville College in 1948 and then completed a graduate course at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois to prepare for Medical School. Upon her graduation, Jones returned to Hot Springs and practiced medicine there for six years. When tension over the Little Rock Nine polarized Arkansas, and newspapers began to spotlight her again, in 1959, they moved to Houston, Texas, where she was accepted as the first black woman intern at the Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals. The segregated staff

title: Edith Irby Jones
text: both the University of Arkansas College of Medicine Hall of Fame and the inaugural group of women inducted into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame. Edith Mae Irby was born on December 23, 1927, near Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas, to Mattie (née Buice) and Robert Irby. At the age of eight, she lost her father, an older sister died at 12 years of age from typhoid fever, and Irby herself suffered from rheumatic fever as a child. These were motivating factors in her desire to help those who were underserved and impoverished and which propelled her toward a career

title: Edith Irby Jones
text: in medicine. Her mother relocated the family to Hot Springs, where Irby graduated from Langston Secondary School in 1944. After winning a scholarship, she studied chemistry, biology and physics at Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tennessee. Irby was well aware of the role she was playing and obligation she had for the black community. One of her teachers had helped her attain the scholarship, members of the local African American community collected change and the black press ran a campaign in the "Arkansas State-Press" which they donated to help with her tuition and living expenses. During her schooling, she secretly made

title: Edith Irby Jones
text: graduate courses at the West Virginia College of Medicine in 1965 and the Cook County Graduate School of Medicine in Chicago in 1966. In 1969, she was honored by the Houston Chapter of "Theta Sigma Phi" professional women with the Matrix Award for Medicine. In 1964, Jones was elected to serve as second vice president of the National Medical Association (NMA). In 1975, she became the first woman to chair the Council on Scientific Assembly for the NMA and then a decade later, she was elected as the first woman president of the organization. In 1986, "Edith Irby Jones Day"

title: Edith Irby Jones
text: was proclaimed by the City of Houston and in 1988 she was named Internist of the Year by the American Society of Internal Medicine. She was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital in Houston and one of the 12 physician owners and developers of the Park Plaza Hospital. Jones also supervises residents at the University of Texas Health Science Center and is active on the board of Planned Parenthood and the Houston School Board. Throughout her career, Jones has received many awards and honors for both her professional and volunteer work, including Honorary Doctorates from Missouri Valley College (1988),

title: Edith Irby Jones
text: at the hospital and limited patient rosters in Texas, caused her to finish her last three months of residency at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C. In 1962, she founded her private practice in Houston's "third ward", part of the inner city of Houston, to help those who could not access care elsewhere. That same year, she became the chief of cardiology at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Houston. She also became an associate chief of medicine at Riverside General Hospital. In 1963, she accepted a post as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Continuing her education, Jones completed

title: Sarah Garland Boyd Jones
text: practiced medicine in Richmond. With her husband, who also became a physician, she opened Richmond Hospital, which was also known as the Women's Central Hospital. Jones died May 11, 1905. Her sister, who also became a physician, married her brother-in-law, the widower, Miles Berkley Jones, The Sarah G. Jones Memorial Hospital, Medical College and Training School for Nurses was named in her honor in 1922. Sarah Garland Boyd Jones Sarah Garland Boyd Jones (née Sarah Garland Boyd; 1866 – May 11, 1905) was an African American physician from the U.S. state of Virginia. She was the first woman to receive

title: Verina Morton Jones
text: 1901 she married Emory Jones (d. 1927). Verina Morton Jones Verina Harris Morton Jones (January 28, 1865 – February 3, 1943) was an African American physician, suffragist and clubwoman. Following her graduation from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1888 she was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Mississippi. She then moved to Brooklyn where she co-founded and led the Lincoln Settlement House. Jones was involved with numerous civic and activist organizations and was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Verina Morton Jones was born on

title: Edith Jones (activist)
text: with her husband in 1930, Jones continued to issue a series of papers that were critical of the treatment of Indigenous people in Australia. She formed a committee within the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society in 1932 to coordinate international campaigns to put pressure on the Australian government over the issue, and both she and her husband continued to agitate for reform to laws that discriminated against indigenous people in the areas of health, education, and citizenship. She died in 1952 in Kent. Edith Jones (activist) Edith Emily Jones (1875 – 1952) was an Australian activist, noted for her advocacy

title: John William Jones
text: practiced medicine in addition to serving on the board of the Oak Bowery Female College in 1850. The next year, he moved to Auburn, Alabama, and was a founder of the Auburn Masonic Female College (current-day Auburn High School). In 1856, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and was a professor at the Atlanta Medical College (current-day Emory University) from 1856 to 1862. During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he served as a surgeon in the Confederate States Army. After the war, he returned to the Atlanta Medical College and served on that faculty from 1865 until 1870. He died

title: Death of Edith Rodriguez
text: Death of Edith Rodriguez Edith Isabel Rodriguez (February 1, 1964 – May 9, 2007) was a woman who died of gastrointestinal perforation at the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital (King-Harbor) in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, after being refused treatment by hospital staff. Staff believed that her pain was due to a gallstone attack and thus did not believe she required urgent medical care. Rodriguez's situation became a cause célèbre about the failures and bureaucratic indifference of both King-Harbor as well as political and health leaders in the Los Angeles area, creating or reinforcing fears that the health

title: Juliette Derricotte
text: Juliette Derricotte Juliette Derricotte (April 1, 1897 – November 7, 1931) was an African-American educator and political activist whose death after receiving racist treatment after a fatal car accident in Chattanooga, Tennessee, sparked outrage in the African-American community. At the time of her death she was Dean of Women at Fisk University. She was born in Athens, Georgia, the fifth of nine children of Isaac Derricotte and Laura Derricotte, a cobbler and a seamstress. As a child, she was hopeful of attending the local Institute and was crushed when her mother told her she would be unable due to her

title: Beatrice Isabel Jones
text: of the Florence Nightingale Medal which had been established to recognize nursing excellence. Jones left Mesopotamia briefly in 1920 and then returned to serve as Chief of Civil Administration in Baghdad until her death there on 14 January 1921. She was buried in Baghdad (North Gate) Cemetery, and was the only woman buried among the 4,555 war casualties. A memorial tablet was dedicated to Jones as the first Matron of Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital by Queen Alexandra in 1922, during a ceremony to honor all of the women of the QAIMNS who had lost their lives during World War I.

title: Sophia B. Jones
text: Sophia B. Jones Sophia B. Jones (1857 – September 8, 1932) was a Canadian-born American medical doctor, founder of the nursing program at Spelman College. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School, and the first black faculty member at Spelman. Sophia Bethena Jones was born in Chatham, Ontario, the daughter of James Monroe Jones and Emily F. Francis Jones. Her father, who was a gunsmith by trade, was born in North Carolina, and was one of the first black graduates of Oberlin College. In the year Sophia was born, he was involved

title: Edith Jones
text: Edith Jones Edith Hollan Jones (born April 7, 1949) is a United States Circuit Judge and the former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jones graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. She received her Juris Doctor from University of Texas School of Law in 1974, where she was a member of the "Texas Law Review". She was in private practice in Houston, Texas, from 1974 until 1985, working for the firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, where she became the firm's first

title: Verina Morton Jones
text: Willam D. and Kittie Stanley. From 1884 she attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She graduated and earned her M.D. in 1888. Following her graduation, Jones moved to Holly Springs, Mississippi where she was a resident physician at Rust College and taught classes for the college's industrial school. She was the first woman to pass Mississippi's medical board examination and the first woman to practice medicine in the state. Jones married physician Walter A. Morton in 1890. They moved to Brooklyn, New York where they set up a medical practice. Jones was the first black woman physician

title: Verina Morton Jones
text: Verina Morton Jones Verina Harris Morton Jones (January 28, 1865 – February 3, 1943) was an African American physician, suffragist and clubwoman. Following her graduation from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1888 she was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Mississippi. She then moved to Brooklyn where she co-founded and led the Lincoln Settlement House. Jones was involved with numerous civic and activist organizations and was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Verina Morton Jones was born on January 28, 1865 in Cleveland, Ohio to