Portrait of Johnnie Ruth Clarke, B

Creator

Unknown

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Creation Date

January 1960

Time Period

circa 1960s

Abstract

A portrait of Johnnie Ruth Clarke.

Keywords

Johnnie Ruth Clarke (1919-1978)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Dr. Johnnie Ruth Clarke was the first Black to receive a doctorate from the University of Florida's College of Education as well as the first Black woman to earn a doctorate at any Florida public university. She taught at Pinellas County Schools, and was the dean of the all-Black Gibbs Junior College in the 1950s. She later organized programs to fight sickle cell anemia as assistant director of the Florida Regional Medical Program. Today the Johnnie Ruth Clark Health Center at Mercy Hospital is named after her.

Local ID

TWC-Photo_HistoricPhoto_0010

Provenance

Donated and permissions granted by The Weekly Challenger to USFSP Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, Special Collections & University Archives on October 25, 2016

Digital Responsible Institution

University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Dissemenation File Format

JPEG

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Unknown, "Portrait of Johnnie Ruth Clarke, B" (1960). Weekly Challenger Image Collection. Image 163.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/challenger_images/163