Two followups: -- He became a doctor, and couldn't quite retire. -- The college apologized ... suz decades later news.emory.edu/features/202...

A Crucial Step Toward Healing

A Crucial Step Toward Healing: After a rejection from Emory’s School of Medicine more than 60 years ago because of his race, prominent physician M. Gerald Hood tells his story of resolve and triumph.

As an alum from an HBCU for my MA…the stories my professors told me of their experiences in the 1950s always enraged me.

I am not at all surprised that he got an MD at a different college. Although it does tickle me somehow that Georgia paid the difference in tuition. Pay extra for the racist segregation!

...six decades.