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Alexander Thomas Augusta, M.D., Howard’s Founding Professor of Medicine

For a man prevented from receiving an education because he was Black, then denied entrance into medical school for what he believes was the same reason, Alexander Thomas Augusta made amazing strides for both education and medicine.

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