A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi

by Douglas L. Conner

This book chronicles the successful struggle of Douglas Conner to escape poverty and to provide advancement not only for himself but also for impoverished and oppressed blacks in his home state of Mississippi. In this poignant autobiography Conner tells of having to overcome the code that taught that blackness and subordination were interchangeable, though he never accepted it. His goal of becoming a physician provided motivation for continued hope...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604731737
• ISBN13: 9781604731736
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"