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Letter from Leonidas H. Berry to “Dear Dr. ____"

As Medical Director of the AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Health Commission, Leonidas H. Berry invited physicians in the church to participate as founding members of the Flying Black Medics, a group of Chicago health care providers who planned to fly to Cairo, Illinois to assist in health care and civil rights activities.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Page with typewritten text.