FROM COTTON FIELDS TO MEDICINE

At The Age Of Forty-Four My Mother Set Out To Accomplish What No Other American Woman Of Color Had Achieved At Her Ageto Graduate And Receive A Doctorate Of Medicine And Surgery From The Universite Lobre De Bruxelles Belgium. . She Walked Two And A Half Miles Daily From The Cotton Fields To A One-Room School That Housed Grades One Through Seven Taught By One Teacher. But It Was Her Thirst Of Knowledge That Would Sustain Her And Carry Her To A Great Adventure Across The Atlantic. . We Hope That The Content Of These Pages Will Inspire Many Other Young Persons To Strive And Become Whatever They Wish To Become Overcoming Any Obstacles And Defying All Odds.