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.