Interview with Asa Yancey

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Title

Interview with Asa Yancey

Subject

Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003
Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-

Description

Interview with Asa Yancey, conducted during the writing of Georgia Tech History, Technology, and Society Professor Ronald H. Bayor's 1996 book Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta. In this interview, Yancey addresses the lack of adequate medical education for African Americans as well as segregation of Atlanta hospitals, particularly how African American doctors could and could not practice medicine. Yancey was the first African American physician on the staff at Grady Memorial Hopsital as well as the first African American member of the medical faculty at Emory University.

Creator

Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-

Source

MS450

Publisher

Georgia Institute of Technology Archives

Date

10/2/87

Contributor

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Rights

Permission to provide online access to this interview has been granted by the interviewer, Dr. Ronald Bayor, and by Carolyn Yancey, on behalf of the interviewee, Asa Yancey.

Format

Audio/mpeg

Language

en

Type

Sound

Identifier

MS450_003

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Bayor, Ronald H., 1944-

Interviewee

Yancey, Asa

Original Format

Audio cassette, DVD, WAV

Duration

1:42:09

Bit Rate/Frequency

128 kbps

Time Summary

1:42:09

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