Broward--2/1/98--Left, Dr. Carmen A. Shirley and her father, Dr. Calvin Shirley.
Posted on Tue, Jun. 26, 2012
Retired physician was a Broward pioneer
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.Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.
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