Robert F. Boyd (physician)

Robert Fulton Boyd was an American physician and dentist who was the first president of the National Medical Association.[1] Boyd and other African-American physicians started the National Medical Association because, during the Jim Crow era, the southern medical societies, medical facilities, and medical schools were racially segregated by state laws.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Morrison, Sheena M.; Fee, Elizabeth (2010-04-01). "The Journal of the National Medical Association: A Voice for Civil Rights and Social Justice". American Journal of Public Health. 100 (Suppl 1): S70–S71. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 2837443 Freely accessible. PMID 20147673. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.175042.


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