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Diploma of Dr. Fred L. Lander, Jr., 1924

Dr. Fred L. Lander, Jr., attended Meharry Medical College in Nashville, at the time one of only two medical schools for African Americans. The 1910 Flexner Report had found that among the institutions that trained black doctors, only the Meharry and Howard medical colleges were adequate. The Flexner Report also advocated the idea of black doctors for black patients, to help prevent the spread of disease from blacks to the white population.

Donated by Fred L. Lander III

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