Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Audrey Manley Audrey Manley
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Other authors / contributors: | Manley, Audrey F., interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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Sound characteristics: | digital
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns. Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer. Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2002 March 14. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | College president and federal government appointee Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley was born on March 25, 1934 in Jackson, Mississippi. Her family moved to Chicago where she attended Wendell Phillips High School. She earned her B.A. degree in 1955 at Spelman College in Atlanta and received her M.D. degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville. Manley returned to Chicago completing her residency at Cook County Children's Hospital in 1963. She practiced privately while working at North Lawndale Neighborhood Health Center. Transitioning to Mount Zion Medical Center in San Francisco, Manley married in 1970 and moved South becoming chief of medical services at Emory University family planning clinic in Atlanta. She became a commissioned officer of U.S. Public Health in 1976 as captain. Working for the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington, D.C., Manley became Deputy Surgeon General and Acting Surgeon General. In 1997, she served her alma mater as president of Spelman College.
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