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“Peter M. Murray, M.D.,” from Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 45, no. 8 (1969): 729.

First African-American to serve in the American Medical Association's House of Delegates.

1950

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“Peter M. Murray, M.D.,” from Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 45, no. 8 (1969): 729.

After a decade of both Black and white physicians fighting to integrate the American Medical Association's (AMA) specialty boards, Peter Marshall Murray of New York is the first African-American to occupy this executive position. This sparks a wave of integration within the AMA, and by 1955, every Southern state has Black members in the AMA, except for Mississippi and Louisiana.