National Medical Association: Medicine in the Civil Rights Movement

Founded in 1895 when Black physicians barred from the white-only AMA organized in Atlanta, the National Medical Association fought medical segregation for decades and remains the nation's oldest organization of African American doctors.

National Medical Association: Medicine in the Civil Rights Movement is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County, erected in 2022. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.7572, -84.3841 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is First Congregational Church United Church of Christ (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Lynching in America / 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, First Congregational Church, and Alonzo Herndon 1858-1927.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.