Elders is best known for her frank discussion of her views on controversial issues such as drug legalization, masturbation, and distributing contraception in schools. She was forced to resign in December 1994 amidst controversy as a result of her views.
Dr. Joycelyn Elders was the first person in the state of Arkansas to become board certified in pediatric endocrinology. Dr. Joycelyn Elders was the first African American and only the second woman to head the U.S. Public Health Service.
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Joycelyn Elders, a Delta, was the first African American United States Surgeon General.
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Joycelyn Elders, née Minnie Joycelyn Jones, (born August 13, 1933, Schaal, Arkansas, U.S.), American physician and public health official who served (1993–94) as U.S. surgeon general, the first black and the second woman to hold that post. Elders was the first of eight children in a family of sharecroppers.
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Joycelyn Elders was born Minnie Lees Jones in Schaal, Arkansas, on 13 August 1933. Elders was the eldest of eight children born to Haller Reed and Curtis Jones.Jan 15, 2021
Oliver Elders, who retired in 1993 as the winningest active high school basketball coach in the state of Arkansas with 656 victories, will be inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame on Friday. On a Saturday morning in the mid-1940s, two boys approached a large building with a key to the door.Apr 3, 2018
Antonia Novello was appointed Surgeon General of the United States by President George Bush in 1990, she was the first woman—and the first Hispanic—ever to hold that office.
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