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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and the Tutwiler Clinic

Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and the Tutwiler Clinic

Thomason, Sally Palmer
Fisher, Jean Carter
Parker, Phillip

Hardcover

Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: South

ISBN10: 1496829166
ISBN13: 9781496829160
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Aug 1 2020
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

For thirty-four years Sister Anne Brooks, a Catholic nun and doctor of osteopathy, served one of the nation's most impoverished towns and regions, Tutwiler, in Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta. In 1983, she reopened the Tutwiler Clinic, which had remained closed for five years, as no other physician was willing to serve in Tallahatchie County. Starting with only two other nuns and regularly working twelve-hour days, Brooks's patient load--in a region where seven out of ten patients that walked in her door had no way to pay for care--grew from thirty to forty individuals per month her first year to more than 8,500 annually.

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