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Edith Irby Jones is an American physician and civil rights activist. She was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the University of Arkansas Medical School and the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American Medical Association. Born in near Conway, Arkansas, Jones was the daughter of a sharecropper. She attended segregated schools in Arkansas and graduated from Philander Smith College in Little Rock in 1948. She then attended the University of Arkansas Medical School, becoming the first African-American woman to be admitted in 1949. She graduated in 1953 and completed her internship at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Jones was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American Medical Association in 1955. She was also the first African-American woman to be appointed to the faculty of the University of Arkansas Medical School in 1957. In addition to her medical career, Jones was an active civil rights activist. She was a founding member of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations and the Arkansas Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She was also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Urban League. Jones has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including the National Medical Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and the National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award in 2002. She was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame in 2003.

Popular As Edith Mae Irby
Occupation Physician
Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 23 December 1927
Birthday 23 December
Birthplace near Conway, Arkansas
Date of death (2019-07-15) Houston, Texas
Died Place Houston, Texas
Nationality United States

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2019

Jones died at age 91 on July 15, 2019, in Houston. Her remains are buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas.

1988

Throughout her career, Jones received many awards and honors for both her professional and volunteer work, including honorary doctorates from Missouri Valley College (1988), Mary Holmes College (1989), Lindenwood College (1991), and Knoxville College (1992). Memorial Hospital Southeast renamed its ambulatory center in her honor (1998). She was the recipient of the 2001 Oscar E. Edwards Memorial Award for Volunteerism and Community Service from the American College of Physicians, and she was inducted into the University of Arkansas College of Medicine Hall of Fame (2004). US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee nominated Jones as a Local Legend for the National Library of Medicine. She was in the inaugural class of inductees into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame in 2015, and received a commendation from the Texas House of Representatives for her service that same year. Two international hospitals are named in her honor: Dr. Edith Irby Jones Clinic in Vaudreuil, Haiti, which she helped found in 1991, and the Dr. Edith Irby Jones Emergency Clinic in Veracruz, Mexico.

1986

In 1986, Edith Irby Jones Day was proclaimed by the City of Houston. In 1988 she was named Internist of the Year by the American Society of Internal Medicine. She was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital in Houston and one of the 12 physician owners and developers of the Park Plaza Hospital.

1974

Jones was a charter member of the group who formed Physicians for Human Rights. She was active on the boards of Planned Parenthood and the Houston Independent School District. In 1974 she was one of the founding members of the Association of Black Cardiologists.

1969

In 1969, Jones was honored by the Houston Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi professional women with the Matrix Award for Medicine.

1964

In 1964, Jones was elected to serve as second vice president of the National Medical Association (NMA). In 1975, she became the first woman to chair the Council on Scientific Assembly for the NMA; a decade later, she was elected as the first woman president of the organization. Jones also supervised residents at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

1962

In 1962, she founded a private practice in Houston's "third ward", part of the inner city of Houston, to help those who could not access care elsewhere. That same year, she became chief of cardiology at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Houston. She also became an associate chief of medicine at Riverside General Hospital. In 1963, she accepted a post as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Continuing her education, Jones completed graduate courses at the West Virginia College of Medicine in 1965 and the Cook County Graduate School of Medicine in Chicago in 1966.

1959

Upon her graduation, Jones returned to Hot Springs and practiced medicine there for six years. When tension over the Little Rock Nine polarized Arkansas, and newspapers began to spotlight her again, in 1959 she and her family moved to Houston, Texas. She was accepted as the first black woman intern at the Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals. Because the hospital staff was segregated and there were limited patient rosters in Texas, she completed her last three months of residency at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C.

1952

During her second year of school, Irby married Dr. James B. Jones, a professor at the medical school. They had three children together. In 1952, Jones received her Doctor of Medicine degree, the first African-American graduate from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She was accepted to complete the first residency by an African American at a hospital in Arkansas.

1949

That same year, she was admitted to the University of Arkansas Medical School, as part of a racially mixed class, and made headlines across the United States from New York to Oregon to North Dakota to Texas. She was the first African American to be accepted in any school in the Southern United States, and the news was carried in September 1948 in The Crisis, Life Magazine's January 31, 1949 issue, the January 1949 edition of Ebony, and such other national publications such as Time and The Washington Post. Although admitted to the school, Jones had to deal with racial discrimination, such as being forced to use separate facilities from whites for housing and dining.

1948

After winning a scholarship to Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tennessee, she studied chemistry, biology and physics. Irby believed she had an important role and obligation to the black community. One of her teachers had helped her attain the scholarship, members of the local African-American community collected change, and the black press ran a campaign in the Arkansas State Press to raise funds that they donated to her for her tuition and living expenses. During her schooling, she secretly made trips with teams from the NAACP to recruit members for the organization. She graduated with her BS from Knoxville College in 1948 and completed a graduate course at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois to prepare for Medical School.

1927

Edith Irby Jones (December 23, 1927 – July 15, 2019) was an American physician who was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas Medical School and the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first black intern in the state of Arkansas, and later first black intern at Baylor College of Medicine.

Edith Mae Irby was born on December 23, 1927, near Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas, to Mattie (née Buice) and Robert Irby. Her childhood was difficult: at the age of eight, she lost her father; an older sister died at 12 years of age from typhoid fever; and Irby herself suffered from rheumatic fever as a child. These events inspired her desire to help those who were underserved and impoverished and catalyzed her toward a career in medicine. Her mother relocated the family to Hot Springs, where Irby graduated in 1944 from Langston Secondary School (named for leader John Mercer Langston).