Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Negro doctor, fresh from Nashville's Meharry Medical College, learned what he was up against as soon as he started to practice in Sanford, in the heart of Florida's orange-grove country. His first emergency was the case of a woman suffering from what he decided was a ruptured ectopic (outside the womb) pregnancy. When he arrived with the ambulance at the hospital, the head nurse, a white woman, demanded scornfully: "Who told you that you could make a diagnosis...
...weeks, the county medical society broke precedent by allowing precedent-making Dr. Starke to practice in the hospital. (Today he is still the only Negro with this privilege, caring for patients in one-third of the beds: 14 white doctors handle the rest.) In 1950, the Florida Medical Association elected George Starke as its first Negro member...
...state. He cranked out endless tracts about civil rights on his home Mimeograph machine. He spoke up endlessly for equal education and school-bus service for Negro children, against discrimination in any form. He did more than talk-as a leader of the Progressive Voters' League of Florida, he did his best to give Negroes genuine political power through bloc voting...
...plant (for the separation of uranium isotopes), and is in the world center of the production and study of tracer atoms. Its museum, complete with artificial lightning and Geiger counters, is host to hundreds of students a year. Its special exhibits travel by truck to schools and fairs from Florida to Oregon...
Uranium Source. The Atomic Energy Commission announced that it has a number of plants at work and abuilding to get uranium as a byproduct from plants in Florida which are now making phosphate fertilizer. Most of AEC's uranium now comes from the Congo, Canada and Colorado...