Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall Street

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Blake Hill-Saya
University of North Carolina Press

The story of the first practicing African American physician in the city of Durham, NC. Credited with co-establishing Durham as the capital of the African American middle class in the late 19th and early 20th century, founding Durham's famed Black Wall Street, and spearheading and running the city's first secular, freestanding African American hospital.

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