The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Robert L. Smith.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 58 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2017.222
Subjects

Other author/creatorSmith, Robert L., 1936- interviewee.
Other author/creatorPinkston, Randall, interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Dr. Robert L. Smith
Portion of title Dr. Robert L. Smith
Abstract Professor and physician Dr. Robert L. Smith was born on December 20, 1936 in Terry, Mississippi. He received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Tougaloo College in 1957 and his M.D. degree from Howard University in 1961. In 1963, Smith founded the Mississippi Family Health Center. During Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964, Smith worked with the Medical Committee for Human Rights to provide medical services for civil rights workers in Jackson. Smith served as an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, as well as professor emeritus in the department of community medicine at Brown University. In 2014, Smith received the Community Service Award from the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the State of Institutions of Higher Learning, and was also named Diversity Educator of the Year. In 2017, the American Medical Association presented Smith with its Medal of Valor Award.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Randall Pinkston, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Jackson, Mississippi 2017 December 13.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2017.222 HistoryMakers

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