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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026

Meharry Medical College: A history.

Publication Details

Nashville, TN: Sunday School Publishing Boards of the National Baptist Convention, 1934 CE.

The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college for African-Americans in the South. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#12990
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/15239
Author Bio Linkthecanadianencyclopedia.ca ↗
External URLmeharry-medical-college-a-history

Geographic Context

Publication place: Nashville, TN