2011 CVM News: Black history month: African American veterinarians at Cornell 1910-1020

dc.contributor.author	Office of Communications
dc.date.accessioned	2018-08-24T12:56:06Z
dc.date.available	2018-08-24T12:56:06Z
dc.date.issued	2011-02-03
dc.description.abstract	This news item for A Veterinary Legacy blog is about: While a veterinary student at Cornell (2009-2013), Dr. Jennifer Morrissey took an interest in the history of early African-American veterinary students at Cornell. She suspected that the previously-accepted university reports failed to accurately identify some of the black students who graduated in the early years, prior to the well-known Aubrey Robinson in 1920. With a determination and yearning for clues that was really quite remarkable, she deciphered class photos with tenacity, corresponded with experts in the field, and spent many hours in Cornell’s Kroch Library. Morrissey was eventually able to identity six black graduates between 1910 and 1919. She was proudly able to verify that Cornell’s contribution to educating African-American veterinarians this early in the profession’s history was unprecedented.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/58471
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine
dc.subject	Cornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine -- Periodicals.; Smith, Donald F; Morrissey, Jennifer
dc.title	2011 CVM News: Black history month: African American veterinarians at Cornell 1910-1020
dc.title.alternative	2011 CVM News: Event to celebrate African-American veterinarians
dc.type	article

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