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DEATHS | CALVIN HYLTON SHIRLEY, 91

Retired physician was a Broward pioneer

Broward--2/1/98--Left, Dr. Carmen A. Shirley and her father, Dr. Calvin Shirley.

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By ROBERT NOLIN

Sun Sentinel

For nearly half a century, he treated patients in a poor black neighborhood, dispensing medicine in return for bartered vegetables, birthing thousands of babies and battling the disease of racism.

Calvin Hylton Shirley, 91, one of the first black doctors in Broward County, died of natural causes Saturday at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, where he was the first black staff physician in the 1950s.

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