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In 1931 Dr. Virginia Alexander founded the Aspiranto Health Home in her own house in Philadelphia. She cared for the very poorest members of her community, the third largest African American community in America at that time.
Virginia alexander biography
As well as general medical care and emergency treatment, she and her colleague Dr. Helen Dickens delivered babies and ran parenting classes. During World War II she cared for coal and iron miners as a public health physician in Alabama, again providing much-needed medical services under the most difficult conditions.
Born in Philadelphia in 1900, the fourth of five children, Virginia Alexander was only four years old when her mother died, and at age thirteen, her father lost his once flourishing livery stable. She decided to leave school and earn the money needed to buy back the business, but her father was determined that she get a good education.
Both Virginia Alexander and her brother eventually won scholarships to the University of Pennsylvania.
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