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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M98- 5
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Creator: Clements, Patricia, Dr.
Collection/Series Title: Dr. Patricia Clements oral history interviews of Florida women, 1997-1998.
Container: 00001
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Item: 00002
Title: Leona Cooper (interviewed October 23, 1997) Parents and birth in Nassau, Bahamas Move to United States at age 14 Arrival at Miami airport and going through customs Miami and Hallandale in 1946 Schooling Booker T. Washington High School Comparison of Bahamas schools to Miami schools Inspiring teachers Traveling to school Parents expectations Early interest in medical laboratory work Role models (mother, grandmother, teachers) Courtship and marriage to William Cooper Training as medical technologist during high school years Employment at Doctors Clinical Medical Laboratory First black medical technologist at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, ca. 1954 -- segregated environment Comparison -- Jackson Memorial to later work at Mount Sinai Hospital -- more integrated and open Importance of avoiding bitterness despite adversity Five children, and death of youngest child Adam, not yet two years old Involvement and activism in Catholic Church Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice award from Pope for her service to the Pope and the Church Women's place in the Catholic Church Current position as Supervisor of Clinical Microbiology at Miami Veteran's Administration Medical Center
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