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  • Description is exactly "1. "Dr. Hicks Admitted Into Medical Society." A Thursday, June 11, 1953 Florence Herald report that Dr. Leonard Jerry Hicks had recently been elected to membership in the Lauderdale County Medical Association."

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Dr. Hicks located in Florence in June of 1933. He was one of six African-American MDs in Florence between 1890 and 1940.

In June of 1953 Hicks became the first African-American physician elected to the Lauderdale County Medical Society (by a…
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